Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Keith

AMD has a lot of catching-up to do here

In terms of CPU, not so much. With its ULV-Athlons (under the Geode-Brand) they have a CPU close to Banias in performance terms and absolutely comparable in power-consumption.

Now that AMD has already demonstrated it is capable of making ULV-parts, you can safely expect this to happen for Bartons as well, and for K8-130nm anyway. I would assume they are couple of month away from ULV Bartons and as well from ULV-K8s. (I heard AMDs statement "we need 90nm for that", but I see K8s progressing in terms of Voltages coming down that an ULV-K8 in 130nm seems to be imminent for this year already.

But this all does not help much: They got to find somebody who dares to make appropriate platforms for these CPUS - and another one designing nice notebooks adding appropriate components. These are the more difficult parts of a competive approach on Centrino. I'm not talking about technological problems, to prevent from misunderstandings.

K.