It's about damn time they get a competitive laptop chip one of these years... Its like they gave up the market. The most recent laptop chip they have is the Turion Ultra which is a 65nm dual-core "K8L" which is a basically the old K8 core with some minor power improvements pulled from the K10. This chip was released almost a year ago, and isn't even based on their latest architecture ie K10. Hopefully this dual-core 45nm "Caspian" is more than just a die-shrink of the older Turion Ultra.
Also, the AMD Neo has better performance than the Atom, but it is only really competitive because a lot of the netbooks are using Intel's power-hungry 945GSE chipset. The single-core Neo has a TDP of 15W just for the CPU itself, whereas a similarly clocked Atom is around 2W. So a dual-core Atom sucking around 4 Watts with the new efficient chipset should be more powerful than the single-core Neo and use 1/2 the power or less.
Is the future dual-core Neo 45nm now? And where is Conesus the Neo replacement? What is Conesus's architecture?
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It's about damn time they get a competitive laptop chip one of these years... Its like they gave up the market. The most recent laptop chip they have is the Turion Ultra which is a 65nm dual-core "K8L" which is a basically the old K8 core with some minor power improvements pulled from the K10. This chip was released almost a year ago, and isn't even based on their latest architecture ie K10.
Hopefully this dual-core 45nm "Caspian" is more than just a die-shrink of the older Turion Ultra.
Also, the AMD Neo has better performance than the Atom, but it is only really competitive because a lot of the netbooks are using Intel's power-hungry 945GSE chipset. The single-core Neo has a TDP of 15W just for the CPU itself, whereas a similarly clocked Atom is around 2W. So a dual-core Atom sucking around 4 Watts with the new efficient chipset should be more powerful than the single-core Neo and use 1/2 the power or less.
Is the future dual-core Neo 45nm now? And where is Conesus the Neo replacement? What is Conesus's architecture?