What the heck is/was Bobcat

This article is about as informative as...

Someone did something I don't understand but he did it anyway.

What was Bobcat?

Was that AMD's response to the Intel Atom?

Bobcat not core product?

If it was not a core product, what would it be?

Bobcat?

Which project was Bobcat?

Charlie still has a job?

I quit reading all of his NVIDIA news because it became absurdly clear how biased Charlie is against them. Now he's infecting the AMD news, too.

Journalism school, Charlie. You need it.

I am not surprised

Nobody heard anything about bobcat, besides on its presentation slide ...

I guess AMD does not have enough engineers to support another core.

Lets hope that Bulldozer is not shot, too ;-)

Bobcat was...

The Bobcat processor is a very simplified x86 CPU core aiming at low power x86 processing with TDP value between 1 to 10 W, together with low voltage operation, the processor was aimed at consumer electronic markets. According to Dave Orton (previous executive vice-president of AMD), Bobcat would make its debut in UMPC devices, OLPC devices, handheld devices, and other small form factor devices.

R.I.P. Bobcat

Bulldozier has One thing in Common with Bobcat, B Letter. Well Bob got Two.

Bulldozier is Officially Known as: X-Rated-X Bulldozier, as its Hot N' Spicie, yet unknown in most respects.

Bully To Max. BullDozier.

TS Drashek

3 sentences does not

An article make, it does, however give a nice little nugget of info. Bobcat was a low power processor aimed at the UMPC niche. Not to be apparently.

Efros

Bobcat is AMD's response to Intel Atom

Bobcat is a UMPC chip which contains a single, 1GHz AMD64 processor core, 128KB of L1 cache and 256KB of L2 cache. It'll have an 800MHz HyperTransport and a DDR 2 memory controller capable of connecting to 400MHz memory. The whole thing is set to consume no more than 8W and sit inside an 812-pin, 27mm² BGA package.

Read more here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/18/amd_bobcat_details/

Geekworthy

Jeez people ... if you didn't understand Charlie's wee story then your simply not a techie or a geek.

So go and read the ordinary news ... or visit those three guys in the Kalahari.

Charlie ... do tell more bout those guys when you can ... have they got laptops with 3G mobile out there or what??

lol ...

@ jim

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat_(processor)
i guess you nvidia fanboys need to read/research a bit more often...

A little more info?

This is kind of like saying "Ford cancels production of a line of automobile."

The devil is in the details, what the hell is a Bobcat, aside from a dirt mover?

I think my CPU is called "clawhammer"

Or maybe it's a sledgehammer. Either way, I think it's what they used to kill the Bobcat.
(Nevertheless, they got laws against that in Canada).
Incidentally, have you noticed most animals eat their prey live? Most highly gruesome.

AMD

Bobcat is/was Bulldozer's little brother.. aimed at 1-10W envelope.

Bulldozer is supposedly the successor to K8.

What Bobcat was

Bobcat was sort of AMD's answer to Atom, but as I understood it, it was also aimed lower. A simple, cheap, ubiquitous x86 chip for which performance wasn't a huge issue.

I'm glad they didn't bother else it could have been a nail in their coffin.

I mean atom is too good anyway, and to try and compete is suicide.

This is probably a good thing. The guy that pull the plug on that nonsense should get promoted for saving the billions and preventing the eventual death of AMD.

Reynod..

If you make such basic mistakes, then maybe "your" (sic) not such an overmind either.

Agreed, remedial journalism training and maybe detox, Charlie could benefit, so his wibbling was comprehensible to us lower lifeforms.

Goodbye Charlie

My now and forever strategy:

if (article.author == "Charlie") {
article.close();
}

There is only so far you can extend beneath journalism, and then again beneath even entertaining, and then again, beneath contempt.

(some of) You people are mad

Charlie files an article that AMD has killed Bobcat and a bunch of people flame him for it.

Should he have filed that AMD has not killed Bobcat?

So the man has an axe to grind with Nvidia. This does not mean everything he files is BS. And qua Nvidia he hasn't filed very much BS.

Me, I can tell a Charlie Nvidia story just by it's headline. I read them - because (a) Charlie is more often than not right, (b) I'm down with Charlie, I think Charlie's only real competition is Silvie... and Charlie don't post 'bout no politics!

Charlies articles

I like charlie's articles. They tell it how it is.

They expose the deceit, lies and manipulation at corporate level with arrogant companies who deserve a good kicking.

Whats more his articles are rarely wrong or inaccurate.

Keep-em coming Charlie, the greens are on the run, shoot the cowards in the back!!!