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End of the Road For AMD's Geode Chip
An anonymous reader writes "AMD has no replacement planned for the aging Geode low-power chip, creating uncertainty for its use in products like future XO laptops made by One Laptop Per Child. There won't be a Geode successor and the company has no core microarchitecture planned to replace the chip, AMD executives said. The comments end speculation about the future of Geode, an integrated chip used in netbooks like OLPC's XO laptop, ultramobile PCs and devices like set-top boxes."
Kinda funny. Via is getting more buzz with C3 and Eden. Intel is getting lots of buzz with Atom. AMD is giving up the market... I want a CEO job so I can go to work drunk too...
Indeed, if you forget about complex AJAX websites and Flash, a VIA CPU would allow you to make a netbook with a really incredible battery life.
The older VIA chips just didn't perform all that well and they where often tied to chip sets with really poor Linux support.
Linux is important in the embedded market. Right now I can go to Newegg and buy a few Atom based solutions. The latest Via was no where to be seen last time I looked.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
I guess I won't be able to upgrade to a new Geode when this one dies. I'd have to say the little thing works quite well, 4 sata ports, software raid-5, tons o' storage, running a webserver and numerous other servers... Oh well, AMD looses another customer I suppose.
-=JML=-