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Dual Core Mobile CPU

post #1 of 3
1/5/05 at 9:04pm
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12...l_demos_yonah/

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...129TX1K0000532

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Intel has shown off its dual-core, 65nm 'Yonah' mobile processor, but don't expect it to ship until 2006, the chip giant said.
Do I hear 2007?

Haven't seen AMD mentioned about it yet.
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post #2 of 3
1/5/05 at 9:25pm
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Originally Posted by smilepak
Haven't seen AMD mentioned about it yet.
AMD talks briefly about it here:
http://www.informationweek.serverpip.../news/52601517
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AMD executives, speaking at a briefing for financial analysts at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters, said two design teams currently are working on reducing CPU power consumption, which in turn allows systems makers to develop smaller mobile devices with longer battery life.

"One of those [teams] will be focused on the 7-watt to 25-watt area," said Dirk Meyer, executive vide president of AMD's computational products group. "Another one will be focused on a power regime that is currently unoccupied by anybody and that is the less-than-5-watt space."

Meyer said the developing devices that use less than 5 watts of power is an area that has yet to be exploited.

"Here you see a form factor that we will introduce in 2006 that will open up a large number of opportunities that can't be realized by today's x86 technology, ranging from handheld computers to who knows what," Meyer said.

Also on the mobile road map is a dual-core notebook in 2005 and notebooks that use DDR2 memory in 2006.
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post #3 of 3
1/6/05 at 1:35am
Just curious, and I figure that Snorre, due to his obsessive nature (just ribbing you), would be able to answer it:

Will the dual core processors be upgrade options for we who buy brand-new laptops soon (with Low Power A64 processors, of course)? Or will it require its own chipset, and not just a BIOS flash at most? It'd be nice to only have to pay less than $1000 to get dual-core action, though I don't plan to wait either way.
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