Wednesday, September 19th 2007

AMD Rolls Out New Low-Power Athlon 64 Processors

At the Embedded Systems Conference this week, AMD announced the addition of three new low power AMD Athlon 64 processors to its embedded product lineup, giving systems designers the benefits of AMD64 technology in a thermal envelope as low as 8 watts. The single core AMD Athlon 64 processor models 2000+, 2600+, and 3100+ adopt Socket AM2 and feature power envelopes of 8, 15, and 25W maximum thermal design power, respectively. They support ECC memory for high reliability data applications and are especially applicable for systems such as Network Attached Storage (NAS), Advanced Mezzanine Cards (AMCs) for the telecommunications market, and various single board computing and industrial implementations. These models will be generally available in Q4.
Source: AMD
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20 Comments on AMD Rolls Out New Low-Power Athlon 64 Processors

#1
Exceededgoku
f**k sake AMD we don't want low power parts! Give me a handheld that needs a 1kw PSU!

PS this is a joke of course, we can all do with mobile devices with low power envelopes.
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#2
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
i want 8W 3100+ chips.

god, the laptop potential :D

personally, i'd love a laptop with a 3000+, 1GB ram and overall it uses 30-40W power for the whole thing. 5+ hours battery ftw!
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#3
a111087
it actually might be very good for those with HTPC, they will you passive coolers easily
or those who run their pc 24/7
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#4
Urbklr
a111087it actually might be very good for those with HTPC, they will you passive coolers easily
or those who run their pc 24/7
Haha...more like no cooler easily. 8 watts....very nice!
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#5
WhiteLotus
AMD need to create a market for themselves since intel is so strong. going green might be a good idea.
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#6
DaMulta
My stars went supernova
AMD is on a roll!!!

I'm getting one of these and putting a TEC on it. Just to see what the Chip will do on a heavy overclock.
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I just told the boss man about these chips, and he was excited to say the least. We could cut the electric bill big time with PCs running these chips.
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#7
jydie
Wow, these will be ideal in a home theater system!! Add a solid state hard drive and the only noise your system will produce will come from the optical drive. With one of these CPUs, you could passively cool the entire system and have nothing to worry about leaving it up 24/7.

If they keep the cost rather low, I will definitely consider one of these!
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#8
suraswami
No More Single Core chips AMD. Please release Dual/Triple core chips with the same watt output. AMD will be seen in everybody's home (even more).
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#9
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
Get a motherboard that you can put two or three in and bam, 24Watts of total useage. SWEET
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#10
Zero Cool
wow, imagine this power in a palm
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#12
panchoman
Sold my stars!
suraswamiThey are going VIA route?
seems like it, but amd's kicking via. amd, just staped some 3100's together and make a 32W x4 cpu :D that would kick intel right in the balls.
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#13
surfsk8snow.jah
Zero Coolwow, imagine this power in a palm
Dude for realz... that's the beauty of this technology, and could potentially be where AMD starts to stomp. Make high-speed, low power consumption processors for cell phones, handheld game systems, heck a Garmin lol... portable and smaller is the way the world's goin, so this is a good market for AMD.
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#14
a111087
panchomanseems like it, but amd's kicking via. amd, just staped some 3100's together and make a 32W x4 cpu :D that would kick intel right in the balls.
actually 3100 will be 25W, 8W and 15W will be 2000 and 2600
at least i think so, if i'm right it should be 100W for quad, not very good
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#15
Urbklr
100W for a quad would still be pretty damn good!
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#16
a111087
no, there are quads with lower power consumptions, take phenom for example
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#17
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
a111087no, there are quads with lower power consumptions, take phenom for example
take the 95 watt C2DQ6600?
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#18
a111087
well Intel doesn't specify it as max consumption and excludes some other parts, so no
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#19
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
didnt know that thanks :D
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#20
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
cdawalltake the 95 watt C2DQ6600?
i thought my G0 was 89W?

not that it matters, at stock it undervolts to around 1.1V, so it'd be 50-60W quad then.
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