AMD Takes On Centrino With Low Power Semprons

2 Jul, 2004 at 11:40am ET Article published in Tech

It finally seems that AMD will have new horses to run and make Pentum M run for its Centrino money.

AMD has five different CPUs for mobiles based on the K8 core – AMD mobile Athlon 64 CPU that is currently shipping in 754 socket and has 512K of cache, codenamed Odessa. This CPU consumes 35W. This is AMD’s only mobile CPU for Q2. These CPUs are branded as 2800 and 2700+.

Oakville will replace Odessa in Q3, and it will have exactly the same specs, but it has to have some benefits over Odessa and that is the faster clock speed. They will brand them as 2800 and 3000. This is AMD’s solution for Q3 and Q4 that consumes 35W in this segment.

In the 25W segment, for the first time, AMD will have 2600+ and 2800+ Semprons codenamed Dublin, that fits into the Value 1 and 2 segments. The Dublin CPU will have 128K or 256K of cache, will be 32 bit, like all Semprons and will use a 754 pin package.

In Q1 of 2005, AMD will launch the first 1MB cache CPU, codenamed Lancaster that will consume only 25W if it works at 3000+, or 35W if it works as 3200+ or 3400+ in Q2 and Q3 of next year.

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

2 Jul 2004 ~ 12:52pm DanG That's interesting.

The industry's largest cache memory system (1 Megabyte L2 cache) to speed up memory access and reduce processor bottlenecks

That's right from AMD.com's Mobile A64 product brief.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_10220_10221%5E10233,00.html

So who's right? Is it 512k or 1mb cache?
2 Jul 2004 ~ 1:26pm tefleming The Industry-leading part is a lie about either one. The Dothan core P-M has 2MB of L2, if I'm not mistaken.
2 Jul 2004 ~ 2:30pm muddocktor And they are still using around 40% more power than a Dothan 2.0 at around 21 watts too. Yes, Dothan has 2 megs of L2 cache and it performs superbly.
2 Jul 2004 ~ 2:53pm Shorty

muddocktor wrote:

And they are still using around 40% more power than a Dothan 2.0 at around 21 watts too. Yes, Dothan has 2 megs of L2 cache and it performs superbly.

Intel got the mobile part utterly right. Credit to them
2 Jul 2004 ~ 4:39pm tefleming

muddocktor wrote:

And they are still using around 40% more power than a Dothan 2.0 at around 21 watts too. Yes, Dothan has 2 megs of L2 cache and it performs superbly.

I'm "stuck" with my 1.6GHZ Banias Core P-M. But I got no complaints indeed
2 Jul 2004 ~ 9:00pm Jengo im afraid AMD loses in this corner of the Processor market again... unless they price there processors much lower then the P-M even then.. i dunno...

heh...

GO AMD!! YOU CAN DO IT!! heh....
4 Jul 2004 ~ 12:10am Thrax How have they lost? We haven't seen any, but one, of the versions they listed.
16 Jul 2004 ~ 2:24pm Dothan lame :P 5% better then banias If i wanted to save power id go with via lol. If i want power ill go with amd. if intel wants to keep this lame middle ground so be it but; I aint buying.
16 Jul 2004 ~ 2:55pm Geeky1

Dothan lame :P (Guest) wrote:

5% better then banias If i wanted to save power id go with via lol. If i want power ill go with amd. if intel wants to keep this lame middle ground so be it but; I aint buying.

'Tis better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
16 Jul 2004 ~ 5:40pm MediaMan Sempron itself is designed to be the next Duron for all intents and purposes. It's a value processor targetted directly at Celery. The word "value" is or may be a bit of a mistake as far as a useful descriptive word. "Value" does imply less expensive but value should not be used to associate with "poor performance".

The numbers will show the truth on that matter comparing equivalent Celerons with Semprons. (The RON race we'll call it)

From a marketing perspective there's the $500 PC market to capture. That's a big market for unit sales and buyers quibble over 10's of dollars on the price point. If AMD can put their processor in a box on the shelf where that complete PC sells for $499 USD and the equivalent INTEL box sells for $599 then that's one advantage.

The other is demonstrating to the public that the AMD product matches/out performs the equivalent INTEL product.

If I've grasped this Sempron push correctly.
14 Aug 2004 ~ 11:58pm ted im going to need a laptop to do alot of multitasking music recording with alot of plugins what is better amd 3200 1mg cash 1600fsb or intell 3.2 with hyperthreding and what laptop would you go with
18 Aug 2004 ~ 9:33am bterry AMD mobile DTR have 1m L2, the low power (35w & 25w) have 512k L2. Sempron mobile 2800+ has 256k & 2600+ has 128k. The Sempron mobile was brought forth to compete with the Celeron (as mentioned earlier) and the Athlon 64 Low-power is to compete with the Centrino. Benchmarks have shown that the Celeron can't hold a candle to the Sempron. The Centrino, on the other hand, does well against the Athlon 64 in 32 bit benches. But there is no 64bit mobile from Intel yet.

Future proof yourself.

BT
18 Aug 2004 ~ 9:58am Jengo

Geeky1 wrote:

'Tis better to say nothing and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

K, that is the most beutiful thing you have evar said!!

:bawling:

>.>
18 Aug 2004 ~ 10:17am Jengo

ted (Guest) wrote:

im going to need a laptop to do alot of multitasking music recording with alot of plugins what is better amd 3200 1mg cash 1600fsb or intell 3.2 with hyperthreding and what laptop would you go with

Dude, just get a dell