Today AMD furthered their commitment to low power chips with the announcement of a Socket S1 Sempron for embedded and single board cmputers that reportedly disspates only 9W.
It should do well. It's clocked at 1 GHz.
Couple this with a flashdrive and reduced power consumption OLED screens, that would be a huge increase of battery life not to mention the passive cooling possibility. It should be enough performance to get things done. When they do the CPGPU merge is when you should really get the total consumption down though but there is quite a bit of time until those get released.
While it is good to see AMD at least trying to compete in low power, they have a long way to go. The Pentium M is still a better product at 90nm. What is AMD going to do to compete with Intel's 45nm product that is coming out next year?
While I wish them all the best, I'm not sure that it will set the world alight. After all, VIA have been selling things like the C3 for quite some time now without attracting a great amount of interest: Via C3. OK, this is a 1.4 GHz, 20 Watt part but they have slower/cooler parts available.
My guess is that it will get some wins in embedded (against ARMs, MIPS and proprietary designs from Freescale & Hitachi, etc) and they may well even cannibalise the top end of the Geode's market, too. So I'm guessing some networking kit, some tablets. But, I can't see them being everywhere in the way that, say, ARMs are.
Wasn't VIA's "Eden" CPU a 9W "monster"? I think it also ran at 1GHz. I wonder if we can get a low power review of these two chips, not that it would mean much...
yeah but only 9w, think about battery life! it may only be 1ghz but it will be able to run all day with out being plugged in. 8)
Thought CPU's eat a lot of power, there are many, many other things that make up power drain. The biggest two are hard drives and LCD screens. When those become ultra low voltage/low wattage then you'll be able to run ur laptop all day. Until then, you're still stuck w/ 5hrs MAX.
While I wish them all the best, I'm not sure that it will set the world alight. After all, VIA have been selling things like the C3 for quite some time now without attracting a great amount of interest: Via C3. OK, this is a 1.4 GHz, 20 Watt part but they have slower/cooler parts available.
My guess is that it will get some wins in embedded (against ARMs, MIPS and proprietary designs from Freescale & Hitachi, etc) and they may well even cannibalise the top end of the Geode's market, too. So I'm guessing some networking kit, some tablets. But, I can't see them being everywhere in the way that, say, ARMs are.
But then, I don't know the price.
Well, when you consider that a 1.9GHz dual core is under $75 you gotta figure these will be no more than $40. With their own embedded chipset, I can see thispicking up a UMPC win or two.
Also, these would work well in Smart Phones. They could also use them for small home appliances.
Combining them with the new ATi mobile graphics chip, this will make sme noise in several markets. I can also see handheld game boxes using someting like this.
Because this is a CPU forum. And also everyone knows that at the lower clocks it's not the same. I don't think I've seen a single core review in ages, but either way AMD is usally much better on idle power than Intel, which is where a chip like this would spend a majority of it's time.
Wasn't VIA's "Eden" CPU a 9W "monster"? I think it also ran at 1GHz. I wonder if we can get a low power review of these two chips, not that it would mean much...
VIA is not the CPU design company that AMD is and Sempron was ruling the retail market for awhile. It woul dbe interesting to test all of the ULV mobile chips. Though those tests would more so concern power and not perf as something like this with a flash drive would be sweet.
This is a rgeat product. I use a Pentium M 1.0 ghz tablet PC with Win XP Tablet edition, 512mb RAM and a GF4 MX graphics card, and the battery life is decent but not great, especially when using Windows Journal a lot.
not necessarily, if the new sempron is based off k10, then I'd say the reverse, sempron ftw. But if it's a k8 sempron (which it might be considering their mobile lineup and how it needs to be so slow for 9w), then I'd say intel only if it's a core or core 2 cpu
Sorry but.. Intel has an 8W 1.2GHz Core (1) Duo ULV... (we are using it)
It's a dual core, and it's smoking fast.
The best you can get, for embedded applications.
Sorry but.. Intel has an 8W 1.2GHz Core (1) ULV... (we are using it)
It's a dual core, and it's smoking fast.
The best you can get, for embedded applications.
Well, what it sounds like you're saying is that Intel should just forget about CSI since AMD already has it and it will more than likely be faster in its HT3 incarnation.
