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AMD Plants Turion Line of Mobile Chips
dsginter writes "Today, AMD has blessed us with their Turion line of chips. Though it is supposed to compete with Intel's Centrino line, with such a name, one has to wonder if AMD is going after the Celeron, the name of which is derived from the latin word, 'celer', meaning 'fast' or 'swift', as in 'celery' - the fastest of all vegetables."
Looks like I'll have to buy Intel or Apple for my next laptop then.
If this will be the next Centrino?
:)
If so, then Intel has very few cards left to play....
Online backup with Mozy, sounds like Ozzie, but more!
...does this mean that the Turion is named after the fastest of all roots, the turnip?
#include "cunning_plan.h"
Turion and Centrino need to have adventures in a magical Roman wonderland. I think Nick Junior could do this justice ...
"The company said it considered the dictionary definition too rare to hinder the chip's prospects."
Well, at least they KNOW it's a shitty name.
Isn't the CPU a Pentium III M?
Turion - A thick fleshy young shoot or sucker
oooh errr missus, titter yea not, NO, go on, really.
I know sex sells but isn't this a bit OTT?
'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes'
I thought I had the wrong site for a minute.
I was expecting CPU trees and shrubs. Hanging baskets overflowing with ddr modules.
A garden shed filled with all kind of GNU/Linux branded tools, and a Microsoft compost heap.
Infact, all sorts of strange things came to mind.
anyway, it doesn't matter, nothing to see here, please move along.
liqbase
"A thick fleshy young shoot or sucker, such as an emerging stem of asparagus."
Seldom has a new cpu made me feel so tingly inside.
Duron was pretty close to 'Celeron' in name.
Turion: A thick fleshy young shoot or sucker, such as an emerging stem of asparagus. (Source:The American Heritage Dictionary)
Just
The news for me is that AMD has 9% of the laptop market. I had no idea it was that large, especially since I have shopped for a laptop recently, and the share didn't seem that big on store shelves.
Soccer Goal Plans
Turion sounds like some person or place from The Silmarillion.
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
Hi kids, this is Bob the Turion, and his sidekick, Larry the Celeron.
all I have to say is GO AMD!!! get in that market that you are missing out on. I would love to see them over take intell in sales for note books and desktops. things are looking good for AMD and I couldnt be happier. and who cares if they have a funny name as long as the CPU is fast as lightning then who cares.
Stinkiest of all fruits.
Now I did not know turion, but it is adscititious to my vocabulary now. But why call it a bud of an aquatic plant at the bottom of a pond? Call it the Fulminate chip: to come on suddenly and intensely. That's a good definition! Billy
I can't seem to find any info about this chip on the AMD web page. Does anyone know any tech. specs?
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist" -I guess I should leave then
What colour flowers does it produce? And do they attract butterflies?
Last of all, when is my local garden centre going to stock them?
Anyone else find it interesting that the Celeron was named after a fast vegetable?
celery bashing!
I thought they were celerons because theres nothing in them, like celery... honestly the worst budget processors ever, I'm typing on one now and it regularly stalls due to the stingy cache, sempron or athlon xp as they used to be called are much better budget chips...
'fast' and 'swift' are NOT words I often hear associated with Celerons. Perhaps they should have gone with insumption or vilion. Is implying that Celerons are fast some sort of cruel joke?
Seen any BadMarketing lately?
Could the subject reveal the true derivation?
Centurion: (in ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers.
Hmm, can't see the intended message, unless AMD aims to decimate the opposition.
Following on from the Athlon and Duron, AMD's next cpu will be called the Moron.
They'd never name a chip after you
;-P
I think they were after a pun for the ancient roman general: The Centurion
Centrino - Turion
This makes more sense to me than the celery ananlogy.
Centrino + Turion = Centurion...?
There's gotta be a Cylon joke in there somewhere...
The rapid radish is by far the swiftest of all vegetable crops! Kneel to the power of the radish! Bow, I tell you!
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
That joke pretty much writes itself, doesn't it?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=turion
http://xkcd.com/386/
The article is factually wrong. I took a stick of celery, a beetroot, an artichoke, and a handful of lettuce and put them at one end of a track. At the other was a bowl of water and a sunlamp, to give them an incentive.
After 5 minutes, they were all STILL moving at the SAME speed! One hour later, they are still neck and neck although the lettuce is beginning to look a little worn-out.
I've had about enough of people pumping up one particular fruit or vegetable, with NO BASIS in actual testing. MOST vegetables travel at the SAME SPEED (unless you drop one, or fire it from a gun, or something) and there is no point paying more for a faster one.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
I thought the fastest vegetable was the runner bean.
I, for one, am glad to have AMD's holy x86 chips forgive my sines.
This business with the name seems to take up most of the story and most of the posts here. Is there actually some news here?
News would be something like: "If you use this chip, your battery will last twice as long as if you used Intel's similar chip." or "This chip has twice the processing power that the similar Intel chip has." or "This chip is a tenth the price of the similar Intel chip." or "This chip is optimized for linux."
I really didn't see any news here other than: "Hey, we got a new product with a funny name." Well, maybe it will keep the stock analysts happy.
It seems to be down a bit today. I checked the AMD message board at Yahoo and nobody seems to be very excited. OK, so what is the news here?
AMD doesn't need to release a whole new line of processors just to compete with the Celeron -- they've had the Celeron beaten for years. AMD's Duron line was consistently cheaper and faster than Celeron -- I refer you to any one of a number of tech sites. Anandtech had a good "budget processor" article comparing Durons and Celerons a while back. Tom's Hardware would do too.
More recently, AMD released the Sempron, meant to replace the Duron as its budget-level processor. Consider Anandtech's conclusion from a Sempron vs. Celeron test they did last July:
"Sempron, at a glance, surpasses its goal to be a powerful budget processor. Cheaper than the current fastest Intel Celeron, both flavors of Sempron that we tested here outperform the competition in almost every test."
In the performance market segment, Intel and AMD have been locked in battle for ages -- sometimes one is up, sometimes the other -- but if you're building a budget system, AMD offers more bang for less buck.
I'll be interested to see how this unfortunately named "Turion" chip compares to the PentiumM.
Hey, dsanfte, your mother gives one mean BJ. You ought to try it sometime.
If AMD gets this right, AMD can sneak its way into the ultralights and ultrasmalls easily. And the way it's been looking for AMD on big-name desktops, volume is likely to go through the roof, especially if Dell finally catches onto the game and adopts AMD procs.
AMD's announcement comes following their failed "Alderon" line of chips, which after just a few months in production were all simultaneously destroyed by a giant moon-shaped pun laser.
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Turok 1990s: http://www.psychosaurus.com/turok/turokdh1.htm
Turok prior art (1950s): http://www.toonopedia.com/turok.htm
Quem a paca cara compra, paca cara pagará.
they would get an I/P lawsuit from the whitehouse...
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
The new Turion 64's are intended for the new thin-and-light notebooks like these: regular and widescreen. The eMachines/Gateway AMD64 notebooks are built by Arima, so I'd expect these things to show up under the Gateway label.
I'd prefer a nVidia chipset and GPU though for 64-bit Linux compatibility, like my current HP zv5000z has. It'll be interesting to see what HP has to offer in the way of Turion notebooks.
Despite a poor showing initially, the lettuce DID win, taking advantage of a light breeze to flutter over the finish line! Some of the lettuce wound up off the track but I feel this is acceptable.
I am sorry to say that the celery finished second equals with the other vegetables -- a poor showing for a plant touted as 'the fastest of all vegetables'.
I would like to point out to other posters that the performance of the jumping bean and asparagus is not relevant -- the claim being tested is that celery is 'the fastest of all vegetables' and it is NO FASTER THAN AN ORDINARY COMMODITY ARTICHOKE.
In the light of this test, I have decided not to put celery in my computer.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
So in your neck'n'neck vegetable race, did any of the vegetables consume less energy to go the given distance? No fair sticking pieces of copper and zinc into them, and this is a "vegetable" race, so you can't use lemons or other citrus fuits, either.
OTOH, when they were in grade school, one of my kids' friends plugged line current into a pickle. (under adult supervision, of course) It made some pretty flickers of light inside, and rather smelled. But it didn't go any faster than your vegetables, even with all that power applied.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
The town of next year's winter Olympics, are they going to jump on the slopes?
Homosexuals are off-topic. There won't be any Turions in Apple's hardware.
Uhmm. How about Turing for Turing Machine?
Back in the 1980's I learned UNIX for the first time on a Celerity 1260D running BSD 4.2 that was running a Motorola 680x0 CPU.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
http://venus.walagata.com/w/jeremetheus/turnip.jpg
There ya go. Fastest vegetable on earth.
The article says that the folks at AMD linked the word with 'tour', to me it's just as easy to associate it with 'turd'! So I would stick with dictionary meanings, because phonetic sounds can differ widely in meaning.
Does it make your pee smell too?
... what sort of advantage do these chips have over the low voltage Athlon 64 mobiles? From what I understand, those have the power economy of the
Centrinos but much better performance.
he's funny
I would use a Turion processor but I don't like all of those damn Metroids. Why couldn't they call it a Brinstar or a Norfair?
I have to wonder about the marketing departments of both Intel and AMD. Neither has come up with anything really imaginative that didn't invite permanent derision since the Pentium name. I used to work for Toshiba's medical imaging division, and they put considerable time into coming up with names and testing them against focus groups. The last one that I remember was the Aquilion, which was taken from the scientific name of a seabird, IIRC. That's a good name because it has an elegant sound and isn't open to instant universal derision. Celeron, Duron, and Turion just don't make the grade.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
The smelliest processor ever!
"..'celery' - the fastest of all vegetables."
That reminds me something I read years a ago...
"Everyone bet on the eggplant, figuring if a vegetable challenges a live animal with four legs to a race, it must be that the vegetable knows something."
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Tur* ... 'nuff said.
They say the mind is the first thing to
The name "celeron" is much closer to "scelerat" than to "accelerate", as was suggested by those who chose it.
turdion
I just bought a Gateway 7405GX
bought the "floor display" for $1150
-AMD Athlon 64 3200+
-512MB PC2700 DDR RAM
-Mobile ATI Radeon 9600 with 64MB of memory
-80Gb Harddrive (unknown speed)
-DVD Burner
-15.4" WXGA TFT display
-7.5 Pounds
...yup...
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2 : to exact a tax of 10 percent from
3 a: to reduce drastically especially in number
3 b: to destroy a large part of
Just for everyone who didn't know.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictio
turion
A young, scaly shoot budded off from underground stems.
Now THAT sounds like it could crunch numbers like nothing ever seen before!
Durision. Trademark pending. See also "Turion Machine" "This turion's for you" "There's a turion born every minute."
turion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (tr-n, tyr-)
n.
A thick brand name for a young processor, such as an emerging stem of 64-bit mobile computing.
[Origin: Lame marketing idea of touring.]
Pio, pio, pio, pio, pio, pio, pio.
(while racing the other fruits on the school bus)
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