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Re: KeithDust2000 post# 25078

Sunday, 02/01/2004 7:01:56 PM

Sunday, February 01, 2004 7:01:56 PM

Re: Dothan is currently speced at 21W TDP for 2Ghz

Do you have a link?

31 watts at 1.8ghz is what I've seen.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/3/34480.html

Perhaps your source is confusing amps (which are 21 for some of these cores) with watts?

By the way, a 2ghz Dothan is several quarters away, so even Intel many not know exactly how much power they will consume, at this point.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13897

Opteron using ~20watts at 1ghz means it will likely be running around 1.3 to 1.4ghz at 31 watts when Dothan ships 1.8ghz at 31 watts.

That means thin&light 64-bit notebooks are going to easy, very easy, for AMD. OTOH, can you imagine a thin%light Itanium? Ouch! Quick! Hand me an ice cube....

Passing on SOI was one of the biggest mistakes Intel has made to date - it may end up dwarfing the whole RAMBUS screw-up.