Tuesday, June 17th 2008

AMD Rumored to be Developing Intel Atom Competitor

AMD is possibly developing a low-power processor to compete with Intel's "Atom" in the emerging Mobile Internet Device (MID) market. The new processor to counter the Atom will be a low-power AMD64-based design according to leaked slides obtained by Hexus. The processor will feature an integrated memory controller, 16-lane 800MHz HyperTransport link, 256KB of L2 cache, and a 1GHz core clock. The new rumored processor with its integrated northbridge and memory controller is expected to have a TDP of 8W compared to the 1.6GHz Atom N270's 6.5W TDP (2.5 W for the processor and 4W for the Northbridge).
Source: DailyTech
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28 Comments on AMD Rumored to be Developing Intel Atom Competitor

#26
hat
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I expect this to perform like a socket A processor... 256k cache, 1GHz...
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OzzmanFloyd120
hatI expect this to perform like a socket A processor... 256k cache, 1GHz...
In defense of socket A cpus, the Barton core had 512k. Also that core had some great CPUs.
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#28
hat
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But they didn't have hypertransport :p
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