AMD Stirs Athlon Into Geode Embedded Soup

An anonymous reader writes "AMD, which in recent months has gained ground against Intel in the battle for the desktop, today announced the addition of a line of high-performance, low-power embedded processors to its Geode embedded x86 processor family. The new processors will be known as the "Geode NX 1500@6W" and the "Geode NX 1750@14W," reflecting a new naming convention based on relative performance and power consumption. The Geode NX 1500@6W processor operates at 1GHz and the Geode NX 1750@14W operates at 1.4GHz. The two new embedded processors are essentially identical to AMD's Mobile Athlon processors, including packaging, but with tweaks to process technology and transistor selections that result in lower power consumption at reduced clock rates." If it meant better battery life, I could live with a processor this slow in a laptop, but according to the linked story, AMD doesn't see much of a market for that.

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Of course when AMD says...

[sryx]

@6W what they mean is they consume 22KW, but thats like 6W of Intel power :P
-Jason

Re:AMD is starting to make my head hurt...

[Elusive_Cure]

Sorry to spoil your party mate but you're totally wrong. AMD's cpus are focused on a better efficiency on the instruction pipeline, i.e. they are designed in such manner that the processing of the instructions given to the microprocessor is up to three times more efficient when compared to a similar clocked Intel cpu. Therefore, when you compare/benchmark for example the Athlon XP 2500 (1.8 GHz) with an equally clocked P4 (1.8GHz), the AMD smokes the hell out of the P4 and its performance is similar to a higher rated P4 cpu (2.5GHz). Thats it...i rest my case...Slashdotters who know nothing get modded by people who know nothing...