14 DAY TRIAL // AMD has definitely been doing well on the graphics front, but its CPUs have not exactly managed to keep up with Intel's, especially on the mobile front. In fact, Intel has practically held a monopoly over the laptop market for the past several years, its success being owed to the Atom and Core Series of processors. Now that AMD has finally reduced the gap on the desktop market, however, the Sunnyvale, California-based company seems quite set on reaffirming its name on the mobile PC segment as well.
The next logical step for Advanced Micro Devices would be to suddenly smash the market with an entire collection of CPUs. These chips would have to have TDPs low enough to enable long battery lives while also offering a better value for money. Now, a report by SemiAccurate comes to reveal that AMD is, indeed, planning on commencing such an assault.
The report states that the company will “soon” unveil an entire collection of dual-core, triple-core and quad-core chips, each meant to cater to the needs of a specific consumer segment. Most of the CPUs, if not all, will fall short of matching the actual performance of Intel CPUs. However, the newcomers should have significantly lower prices while still packing a strong-enough punch to score design wins.
AMD will unveil a number of dual-core processors, such as the 2.3GHz Turion II P520, which has a TDP of 25W, and the more power-hungry 2.5GHz N530 (32W TDP). Both of these parts will have 1MB cache (per core).
The other dual-core chips set to debut are part of the Athlon II series and have the same TDPs of 25W (2.1GHz P320) and 35W (2.3GHz N330). These two will only have 512KB cache memory per core. The remaining two dual-core processors are known as the Phenom II N620 and X620 Black Edition, with speeds of 2.8GHz and 3.1GHz, respectively, and TDPs of 35W and 45W.
The chip developer will also unleash triple-core parts, such as the Phenom II P820. With a frequency of 1.8GHz, this CPU consumes 25W and is weaker than the 2.1GHz Phenom II X3 N830, though the latter is more power hungry (35W). As for quad-core units, there will be the 2GHz Phenom II X4 N930, the efficient 1.6GHz P920 (25W) and the high-tier X920 BE (Black Edition), which will consume 45W in exchange for providing four cores at 2.3GHz.