Monday, January 12th 2009
Intel to Take on Athlon Neo with New Low-Power Mobile CPUs
Currently leading AMD in every market-segment of CPUs, Intel is planning to take on the Athlon Neo series CPUs, a set of low-wattage CPUs specifically designed for the ultrathin form-factor notebooks. Intel's Athlon Neo competitor would take shape from its current ultra low-voltage (ULV) processors that feature in products such as the Apple Macbook Air.
The processors will use the 22 sq mm packaging. Intel's lineup is expected to include ULV chips with rated TDPs as low as 10W, against AMD's Athlon Neo chips offering rated TDPs as low as 15W. There is no word on the availability of these chips, although with Athlon Neo based products coming out only in Q2 2009, that still leaves Intel at least three months to prepare its new ULV chips.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
The processors will use the 22 sq mm packaging. Intel's lineup is expected to include ULV chips with rated TDPs as low as 10W, against AMD's Athlon Neo chips offering rated TDPs as low as 15W. There is no word on the availability of these chips, although with Athlon Neo based products coming out only in Q2 2009, that still leaves Intel at least three months to prepare its new ULV chips.
18 Comments on Intel to Take on Athlon Neo with New Low-Power Mobile CPUs
Intel could easily use one of the newer G31 or G41 chipests if they wanted and match the 690T. Or leave it up to the manufacturer, possibly using the nVidia 730 chipset. If you even looked at the C2D laptop CPUs, you would see that they have the same amount of cache as their desktop counterparts(Merom=Conroe=4MB, Penryn=Wolfdale=6MB). Lower clocks are all expected with the mobile game, and clock for clock a moble C2D will still be faster than a mobile K8. The Neo processors aren't exactly clocked high, in fact their clock speeds are kind of a joke. A single core K8 at 1.6GHz isn't exactly a huge powerhouse, and the 1.0GHz single core K8 with 256KB cache is certainly packing a huge punch.:laugh:
a little background info on the intel gma chipsets, they are all at the core based on the intel i740, a chipset from the 90's, the new GMA that intel is working on should beable to compete but any current GMA is TOTAL ASS, stop being a IFB and just accpet that AMD may not be "the best" but they arent utter crap like you constantly imply.
Oh and 1-1.6gz k8 is plenty powerfull for most people, Oh and it can play 720p h264 video, I HAVE DONE IT, i have gotten my duron 1.2gz (spitfire not applebread) to play 720p h264 video+5.1ch aac audio studder free, trick=coreavc with deblocking dissabled(not needed at those resolutions)
oh and the duron has 768mb of pc133 ram ;)
And how much cache are these ULV chips going to have? 2 if they're lucky. Do you have some more BS to try to feed me.
edit: I see they actually upgraded the C2D to 3 MB cache, now. Still pricey for a budget laptop, though (2 MB ones are cheap). I saw tons of the pentium branded ones with 1 MB, what a joke.
I never imply that AMD is total crap. You just hear it that way because you are an AMD fanboy. Whenver anyone even suggests that Intel might be equal to AMD, you take it as them saying AMD is crap. Sorry, but that isn't how it works. We don't all have to bow down to AMD as a god, and anyone that doesn't bow isn't an Intel Fanboy.
Oh, and I never said the K8 wouldn't be enough. I just said that Intel could do the same thing with a low clocked C2D based processor if they wanted a quick way to compete with AMD. My 1.6GHz Atom and GMA950 is enough to play 720p H.264 video... These low powered processors don't have to be power houses, which is why a 1.6GHz K8 is more than enough. Yes, I know it is such a surprise to you that lower priced processors have cut down amounts of cache. A C2D w/ 2MB still outperforms a K8 w/ 512KB, and the C2D with 1MB outperforms the K8 w/ 256KB. And with only a single core, the L2 cache becomes even less important as it is no longer shared with a second core.
The laptop prices themselve might be high, but that doesn't reflect the prices of the processors. The manufactures of the laptops decide what the laptops will sell for. I can find K8 based notebooks right up there with the high end C2D based notebooks.
See, here's the problem. We're talking about ULV, not high performance chips.
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sure as hell cant game on them, and sure as hell arent gonna choose them for a serious media playback system..... sure you do, anything AMD puts out, nvidia or intel is better, read ur own posts........
Your posts alwase COME OFF as saying amd sucks and that everybody else is a better option, just admit you dont like amd and that you do like intel and nvidia.
It will play 1080p content, it is good enough. See, here is the key. I don't say that Intel or nVidia is better. I say they are equal, you being an AMD fanboy, read that as me implying that AMD is crap. If we don't say AMD is the best, and no one else can compete, and bow down to the AMD God, we must be Intel/nVidia fanboys and bashing AMD.:shadedshu Perhaps you are the one that should be reading your own post.
Basically a Intel mobile CPU is an ordinary one picked form the center of a silicon wafer. AMD has the same approach, but its SOI technology is more power efficient at low voltage.