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AMD Announces 65-nm Chips, Touts Power Savings

Posted by kdawson on from the smaller-and-cooler dept.

Several readers wrote in about AMD's entry into the 65-nm manufacturing generation. The company introduced four chips to be manufactured with 65-nm process in the first quarter of 2007 to replace existing 90-nm chips in their lineup. AMD is playing up the power economy of its line, claiming that even its existing 90-nm parts consume less than 50% the power of Intel's Core 2 Duo, averaged over a typical day's usage, while the new 65-nm chips will be even stingier with power. Next stop, 45-nm. The article says that AMD has a goal of catching up within 18 months to Intel's lead on the way to 45-nm technology.

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  1. Great! by corychristison · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've been in the market for upgrading my system. Currently, I've been running an AMD XP 2500+ [Barton Core], 1GB generic DDR Memory, Seagate 120GB hard drive and a random AGP 8X video card I found laying around [literally].

    This is great news for me. I knew that if I had waited long enough that something nice would come from AMD. I've been waiting for something I can keep turned on all day without draining my pocket too much. I will definitely purchase an X2 65mn processor. I'm not one for paying enormous amounts of cash for a "high end" machine. I just want something newer than what I have. I'll probably give this machine to my youngest brother for something to learn on. He has a system, but is a really old Celeron. Older than this machine.

    Also, hopefully this will launch off some nice new Laptops and HTPC machines. I'm currently looking at a Westinghouse LVM-37w3 and a nice cool HTPC to drive it would be a dream. :-)

  2. (I'm gonna burn in hell for this . . .) by mmell · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    1Q2007 . . . hmmm . . . so it'll run Duke Nukem Forever? Just askin'.

    But imagine the energy savings on a Beowulf cluster of those things!