roman
Wed May 17 19:44:45 CDT 2006
Hello!
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eFwSU9aeGHA.1436@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Advanced Micro Devices has gone dual-core across the board with the expected release of the Turion 64 X2 processors on Wednesday.
>
> The Turion processor was AMD's first major effort to build a processor designed specifically for notebooks, and it now has two
> cores, said Matt Mazzantini, an AMD mobile marketing manager. Notebook makers such as Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, Acer and others
> plan to release notebooks with the chip over the next several weeks, he said.
>
> Read the rest here:
http://news.com.com/AMDs+Turion+gets+a+second+core/2100-1006_3-6073074.html?tag=nefd.top
>
> Well, I guess Intel looks really foolish again, but I'll give them a few more months until Merom comes out. An AMD Dual Core
> Turion still does not mean we will be getting a 64-bit Tablet PC I am afraid. :(
http://www.edn.com/blog/400000040/post/1610003361.html
[quote]
AMD's seized the spotlight, at least for the moment, but remember: it's competing against an Intel CPU that was first publicly
demonstrated nine months ago, went into production at the beginning of this year and is based on an architecture that was unveiled
over three years ago. And, as AMD already intimately knows, the successor to Yonah, Merom (aka Core 2 Duo), is soon to arrive. At E3
last week, an Intel spokesperson parroted back to me the target production dates that Intel CEO Paul Otellini had recently shared
with financial analysts: Woodcrest (workstations and servers) would ramp into production in June, followed by Conroe (desktops) in
July and Merom in August.
Turion 64 X2 and Yonah both support hardware hooks for virtualization, as will Merom. As its name implies, Turion 64 X2 (unlike
Yonah, but like Merom) will run 64-bit Windows XP; theoretically, this is a near-term advantage for AMD, but as a recent Sound on
Sound article reiterates, 64-bit Windows XP remains a non-starter. By the time 64-bit Windows Vista appears, AMD and Intel will be
on common ground in this respect.
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Regards, Roman