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Atom-competitor from AMD Codenamed Bobcat

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CEO for AMD, Dirk Meyer said that AMD would unveil its plans to take on the Intel Atom processor to cater to the emerging ULPC market, making it part of the roadmap. Sources suggest he core codenamed Bobcat is derived from the K8 design, it is a 64-bit single core processor that could debute with a 1 GHz clock speed. It uses an 800 MHz (1600 MT/s) HyperTransport link as its system interconnect, a total of 128 KB L1 and 256 KB of L2 caches. A DDR2 memory controller will be on-die.

It is composed of a 22 sq. mm ball grid array (BGA) package with 812-pins. While its power consumption may be 8W, more than three times that of the Atom, the fact that currently Atom-based solutions make use of northbridge chips such as the i945 which consumes around 6W, the equation is more or less balanced. With Intel currently having problems coping with demand, it would have been a good time for AMD to materialise the Bobcat, and if it takes as far as this November before plans even surface, forget materialise, precious time is lost in the competition. Currently VIA C7-M and some low-power Intel Celeron parts are making up as alternatives to the Atom.

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That sounds pretty good. I'm glad that AMD is doing it so... But, I got one problem...

Will it be this bobcat?



Or this one?



As the Mascot?
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This is the one with "full" architecture, right? Instead of a cut-down RISC based architecture with some microcode compatibility layers?
If so, then I'd happily buy a UMPC based on it.
Is it about the same size as the Atom, smaller, or larger? I hope it uses 45 nm.
 

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No, this is Bobcat:
 

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Come on bta, you know a cat would be a great mascot for AMD! lol.. It does look like a good contender for the Atom. Hope they can get something going!
 
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