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AMD plans Atom buster
BGA bagged
Tue Jun 17 2008, 15:53
GERMAN-LANGUAGE web site Eeepcnews.de has dug up an AMD slide that suggests the firm is plannning a wee 64-bit chip runnig at 1GHz with a TDP of 8W.
According to the slide, a Hypertransport-powered chipset would include the CPU as well as the Northbridge memory controller. The Southbridge and GPU will be bolted on.
If the ultra-portable, cheap-but-cheerful, widdly PC is to kick off, AMD wants its slice of the pie, just like Intel, VIA, the other outfit and current ruler of this particular roost, ARM. µ
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It’s funny how insecure the Intel Fan boys are that they eschew the very competition that forced Intel to improve their performance and not let them rest on their laurels and provide everyone crap like the P4. Too bad they had to cheat and steal their way to the top but that’s business as usual for the mighty Intel. 

As for the chip it looks promising I hope it shows up so I have a decent choice for my next low power project. 
Sounds like a die shrink of the Sparta/Sempron LE core.
@Rich Wargo
All ultra low power processors from AMD for embedded use do not have an integrated memory controller.

I doubt the sense of such a processor in this form. They should wait until fusion is ready and launch a complete new platform for embedded and ultra mobile use.
But a ultra mobile processor with Athlon64 core will rock the ultra mobile scene.

Best regards

This sounds like bobcat. Amds next low power chip. Thought it should have just about every thing on board or on package.
For those of us who would actually consider this chip for an embedded application, lets hope AMD builds in some of that virtualization support with the hardware so we can use Linux along side of a real RTOS easily and seemlessly.

Jim
what happond to the amd geode ?
8W for AMD
and intel Atom Silverthorne 2W + 945GSE 4.5 W = 6.5 W 

smth similar, but Atom has very low production price,- if AMD 8W CPU is Athlon64 it would have quite big die size, so production cost would be much bigger 

and ye, AMD 8W cpu now is only in PDF, Intel one is Asus EEE PC
Atom is the most anemic and worst processor designed by Intel - don't believe all this HYPE in the press. Intel used to make a big HYPE even about a piece of crap like Pentium 4. 

Atom is worse than old stuff from Intel that is 5 years old

If AMD can get their act together they can design a much better core for the UMPC/LC segment
If that's what AMD's got going against Lincroft then it's gonna get owned.

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=246906
Is this chip a new version of the AMD Geode NX? (Witn a new DDR2 memory controller, new package/socket, possible die shrink, etc.) That would actually be pretty cool, since the Athlon XP-M from which the Geode NX was derived was a very capable chip.
It's so little and cute!
$10 it will not beat anything :o)
DDR2-400 ?!
Are those even build anymore ?
yep... intel made a slow and weak processor. AMD will easily beat them at that.
AMD is a premium supplier of imaginary processor roadmaps, supported by Photoshop and Powerpoint technology.
You know, it's true what everyone says and I am just plain fed up. Intel should really just stop copying AMD.
When was the last time the memory controller WASN'T integrated on the CPU chip? Geez guys, get with the program, will ya?

(wonders if there would be a good business decision to integrate the remainder of the north bridge and the south bridge on the chip also? Probably not, just extra baggage for HPC configurations.)
¿It's based on the Athlon 64?

If that's the case then it will smoke the Atom.
Sure to be a winner!