AMD readying Atom competitor
September 13th, 2008
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Beginning this November AMD plans to introduce its Ultra-Value Client (UVC) processors to challenge the Intel Atom. The two chips that will be offered are the single-core Athlon 2650e and the dual-core Athlon X2 3250e. The dual core series currently bests what Intel has to offer unless the future dual core Diamondville uses hyperthreading to present four cores. The power consumption of these new chips will also be lower than Intel’s offerings once you compare the CPU and chipset power consumption. AMD plans to sell the chips to OEMs for low cost desktops and netbooks.
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