Wednesday, January 7th 2009
AMD Adds Low-Power Athlons to Retail
AMD added two new low-power Athlons introduced primarily to gain leverage with the nettop segment Intel has been dominating in. The two models, Athlon 2650e and dual-core Athlon 3250e are derived from the K8 micro-architecture which still holds certain technological advantages over competitive platforms from Intel in that segment.
The Athlon 2650e is comes with a clock-speed of 1.60 GHz, 512KB of cache and a rated TDP of 15W, while the dual-core Athlon 3250e ends up with better power efficincy being clocked at 1.50 GHz, with a TDP of 22W. Both processors use the AM2 socket and support DDR2 memory. They are expected to be priced under $50.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
The Athlon 2650e is comes with a clock-speed of 1.60 GHz, 512KB of cache and a rated TDP of 15W, while the dual-core Athlon 3250e ends up with better power efficincy being clocked at 1.50 GHz, with a TDP of 22W. Both processors use the AM2 socket and support DDR2 memory. They are expected to be priced under $50.
11 Comments on AMD Adds Low-Power Athlons to Retail
now when they get a k10 thats native dual core thats gonna intrest me (the overclocking should be better then quads ;) )
more info on neo here
www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2009/01/06/amd-athlon-neo-the-new-ultra-thin-platform/1
www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/showthread.php?t=212523
they ran some testing and on a stock AMD HSF you can run this chip passive