They started R&D on this before the technology was ready. This is a UMPC and Intel is already tooling smaller micron processors specifically to boost runtimes on UMPCs. By going with AMD, they are using a woefully underpowered chip and still not likely to meet their desired power consumption goals. If you read the article, they haven't met them yet and I'm not sure what they can do to bridge the gap with their existing architecture. If they can not get an all-day runtime on the battery it will be an engineering failure.
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ug @ May 14th 2007 2:37AM
They started R&D on this before the technology was ready. This is a UMPC and Intel is already tooling smaller micron processors specifically to boost runtimes on UMPCs. By going with AMD, they are using a woefully underpowered chip and still not likely to meet their desired power consumption goals. If you read the article, they haven't met them yet and I'm not sure what they can do to bridge the gap with their existing architecture. If they can not get an all-day runtime on the battery it will be an engineering failure.