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AMD Launches Low-Voltage Processors

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the cooling-things-down dept.

mgoulding writes "CoolTechZone reports that AMD has released its low-power Athlon processors, which are designed to target the ultra-lightweight notebook market. The low-voltage chips will use smaller batteries and produce less heat. Acer plans to ship systems using the processors by the end of May." Acer plans to use them in their Ferrari line of thin laptops.

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  1. Watt? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm amped to get one of these!

  2. Big Mistake, AMD... by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should have gone the other way, making fast, but hot processors, and then marketed their notebook/travel iron combos.

    No, I don't iron my clothes either, but it's the thought that counts, right?

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  3. Less heat? by rms_nz · · Score: 5, Funny

    If laptops start producing less heat, then what are we going to use for leg warmers on those cold winterery days?

    1. Re:Less heat? by dicepackage · · Score: 2, Funny

      be careful there are 65,100 hits on Google about people burning their penis http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe =UTF-8&q=%27laptop+penis%22&btnG=Search

  4. They had to go and ruin it didn't they by Wasteofspace · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now what am I supposed to cook my eggs on????

  5. hmm by TechnologyX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ferrari line

    But I'm on a Ford Tempo budget.. guess it's back to leg burns for me

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  6. Re:Great news for people like myself... by proxima · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cheap, light, and fast, pick three; I like cheap and light.

    Whoops, I meant pick two of course.

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  7. What, for CMOS? by The+Mainframe · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The low-voltage chips will use smaller batteries and produce less heat."

    So these processors have built in batteries, eh? ;)

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  8. A non-overheating Italian car by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 5, Funny

    Acer plans to use them in their Ferrari line of thin laptops.
    Is this the same laptop that was reviewed here a while ago? The one that makes revving sounds when booted up? Anyway, there's something wrong with putting a cool-running processor in a product named after an Italian car. Italian cars are supposed to overheat - when I had my FIAT/Pininfarina Spyder, part of the fun was sitting in traffic on a hot, humid summer day with the heater fully on to avoid cooking the engine.
    b0s0z0ku

    1. Re:A non-overheating Italian car by dirkdidit · · Score: 2, Funny

      I currently have a Fiat Spider and it's a zippy little Italian car. Part of the fun of driving it is knowing that you may not make it back in one piece. It just shows that you can have something that comes in a small package but is mean and loves to get hot, kinda like a midget.

  9. Ferarri Line by The_Rippa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, tens of people will be enjoying the benefits of the new processor!

  10. Low Volt AMDs? by An-Unnecessarily-Lon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man I want my 1.21 jigawatt proccesor.

    1. Re:Low Volt AMDs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      Man I want my 1.21 jigawatt proccesor.
      Then you'd really be gettin' jiggy with it...
  11. Re:Why is it called low-voltage? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's called "low voltage" because the term was coined by an engineer.

    And it beat out the marketing department's entry "Less shocky stuff".

  12. Yay, even hotter slow laptops! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Soon we'll have laptops with 1THz 128-bit CPUs that can have up to 16 simultaneous hyperthreads running, all blocked on dog-slow laptop hard disk I/O 99.9999% of the time. We won't notice because our penises will explode in a cloud of steam as soon as we turn them on.

    Awesome!

  13. Re:compactness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    having everything cramped together makes typing on any laptop, for me, feel claustrophobic

    You should see a shrink.