Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Windsock]

AMD has an 82 watt Athlon 64 mobile chip.

All that and half the cache too. Wow, what a lap burner !!

http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5173124.html?tag=prntfr

Advanced Micro Devices has a few more chips up its sleeve.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker has been quietly working to expand the distribution of its Athlon 64 processor in desktops and notebooks. The chipmaker is doing so by increasing shipments of a new version of its desktop Athlon 64 based on a processor core dubbed Newcastle and by launching a new mobile Athlon XP chip based on the circuitry of the Athlon 64. AMD also plans to soon release another Athlon 64 FX chip for desktop PC enthusiasts.

The Newcastle-based chips, which have recently become available in model numbers 2800+ and 3000+ and will soon include 3200+, may be the most notable change afoot. The new processors use half the Level 2 cache of AMD's original Athlon 64 desktop chip. Instead of coming with 1MB of Level 2 cache, the newer chips incorporate 512KB.

<snip>

"I'd expect to see Athlon 64 move into a 35-watt envelope, and our goal is to move (it) down into 25-watt (notebooks)," [John Crank, AMD's Athlon 64 product manager] said. Right now, the mobile chip runs at 65 watts to 82 watts.