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End of the Road For AMD's Geode Chip

Posted by timothy on

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."

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  1. Re:Cyrix by palegray.net · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I would suggest VIA Nano processors. Their L2200 chip sports these features:
    • Speed: 1.6 GHz
    • FSB: 800 MHz
    • Process: 65 nm
    • Idle Power: 100 mW

    Pretty decent specs for mini-notebooks and such.

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  2. Re:Why oh why... by wtarreau · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Geode may be the only x86 CPU capable of running without even a heatsink on both the CPU and the chipset. As far as I know, Atom requires a heatsink and a fan on the chipset, and the VIA nano requires a heatsink on both. The Geode is really fantastic in this regard. A typical Geode-based system has no problem being less than 1cm thick and weighing only a few tens of grams. That's important in many areas today.