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AMD Atom smasher due today
Better and worse, but no handcuffs
By Charlie Demerjian: Thursday, 13 November 2008, 8:24 AM
AMD WILL TALK about its upcoming netbook CPU in few hours, something that should shake up the market. Technically, it won't be an Atom killer but, on a platform level, it could make things very interesting for Intel.
The basic part is nothing more than a shrunken older core, and that won't be power-competitive with Atom in any way. It should trounce it for performance, though. It will be paired with a much more modern and efficient chipset, the combination of which should be even with Atom + i945 for wattage.
So, the matchup, come January, will be fairly even on power but AMD will have a performance lead, supposedly a quite noticeable one if the early rumors pan out. AMD will also likely price it pretty cheaply, giving Intel another potential headache.
AMD's killer app for their Atom Smasher is quite simply Intel policy. Intel's anti-cannibalisation practices are generally hated among the OEMs for some things, loved for others. They hate the fact that they can't make full sized netbooks, full featured netbooks, or in general, differentiate. These guys simply hate handcuffs.
Enter AMD with its new netbook CPU. The pitch? Easy, make what you think will sell, not what we think won't hurt our other sales. We are cheaper, and like-for-like have about the same battery life, but our CPU performance and graphics are much better. What's an OEM not to love.
There are several design wins already from the whispers we have been hearing. But no word as to how substantial they are... yet.
Look for close AMD partners to start letting things out. The second generation part, due mid-year, is going to be the one to watch. Instead of a shrunken core, it will be a shrunken core mildly tweaked with all the low-power fabbing tricks AMD can throw at it.
None of these new parts will challenge Atom pico-watt for pico-watt, but platform for platform, they should make things tough for Intel.
Couple that with a vastly superior chipset, lower prices, and the promise of no handcuffs, and netbook sales should be rather interesting in Q2-Q3/09.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/13/amd-atom-smasher-due-today
Ако је ова вест тачна, онда ће бити весело нагодину. После пропасти заједничког пројекта VIA-е и nVidia-е, ово би могло да унесе одређена померања на тржишту нетбукова :smash:.
AMD gets serious about stream processing
Hardware
By Wolfgang Gruener
Thursday, November 13, 2008 07:00
Sunnyvale (CA) – AMD unveiled a new stream processor card and announced a new stream software development kit as well as a new Catalyst driver update that promises showcase the floating point horsepower horsepower that is currently hidden in the firm’s graphics cards. There is also a new Avivo video converter that will convert videos 17 times faster than before, AMD said.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40173/135/
Catalyst 8.12, due for a December release, will be released in tandem with a new and free Avivo video converter tool that will leverage the GPU to convert videos between different formats. AMD promises a 17x speedup and claims that a HD video that took 3 hours to convert will now be converted in just 12 minutes on a Radeon HD 4850 card.
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И још добрих вести :smash:
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Intel Drops After Sales Target Chopped by $1 Billion (Update2)
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp. fell as much as 6.7 percent in early U.S. trading after slashing its fourth-quarter sales forecast, stoking concern that the financial crisis is stifling global technology spending.
Intel, whose chips run more than three-quarters of the world's computers, reduced its revenue estimate by about $1 billion late yesterday, citing ``significantly weaker'' demand across its entire product line. Its profit margin also will fall short of an earlier prediction.
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Intel fell as much as 90 cents to $12.62 in trading before U.S. exchanges opened from the close of $13.52 yesterday.
Intel has lost almost half its value this year.
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Intel's fourth-quarter revenue will be $9 billion, plus or minus $300 million, the company said yesterday. Santa Clara, California-based Intel originally predicted sales of between $10.1 billion and $10.9 billion. The company gets 80 percent of its sales outside the U.S., a sign the slump has spread to the rest of the world.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=anUDg_aEMLoY&refer=home
