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AMD sketches out new high-end, low-end chips

malebolgia   on 14 November 2004 - 02:58 · 15 comments & 2126 views

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Advanced Micro Devices will take the high road and the low road in the chip market.

Executives here at the company's annual analyst meeting on Friday outlined a strategy that will, ideally, allow AMD to take market share in the server, corporate desktop and notebook space as well as penetrate the consumer device market with chips based around the same so-called x86 architecture. "We're talking x86 chips down to a buck," said AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, who added that the chip markets AMD participates in should grow relatively well.

On the high end, AMD will release chips with two processing cores in 2005, and then follow in 2006 with chips based around a new chip core code-named Pacifica. The company is relatively tight-lipped about Pacifica, but said it will be a dual-core chip that also contains virtualization technology--which allows a computer to run multiple operating systems--and a security technology called Presidio. Pacifica will appear in desktops, notebooks and servers in 2006. AMD said it also will come out with a new ultra low-power chip for notebooks.

News source: C|Net News.com


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#1 ngoducthang on 14 Nov 2004 - 05:40
wow interesting, let's hope the current chips prices will go down lol...
(3 replies) #2 amdme3200 on 14 Nov 2004 - 06:28
yup

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#2.1 SquareSoft0 on 14 Nov 2004 - 09:39
Jesus Christ, learn to spell
#2.2 amdme3200 on 14 Nov 2004 - 11:08
Hey SquareSoft0 dont bring Jesus in this.

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#2.3 tiagosilva29 on 14 Nov 2004 - 14:05
Yo?
#3 HappyCar on 14 Nov 2004 - 08:51
Futures looking bright!
(3 replies) #4 beardly on 14 Nov 2004 - 10:13
I figure I couild buy a 3500+ now and in 2006 I would be due for a new processor. Can't wait to see what AMD will produce; looks promising.
#4.1 tiagosilva29 on 14 Nov 2004 - 14:08
I was thinking on making a new system in February/March... Now, with all this new stuff... I'm not so sure...
#4.2 jas8522 on 14 Nov 2004 - 19:28
Problem is you can say that all you want, for years, and never get a computer because you're constantly looking at whats to come - doesn't seem worth it to me


Jas8522
#4.3 tiagosilva29 on 14 Nov 2004 - 23:08
No, no, no... my issue is with "big" changes: i.e. dual-core chip that also contains virtualization technology--which allows a computer to run multiple operating systems <- big
#5 ArtOf_War on 14 Nov 2004 - 12:14
That low power mobile chip looks interesting
#6 alpoinacan on 15 Nov 2004 - 00:57
Well as I sit here reading this, I'm holding in my hand an old AMD K6 400(199 chip and thinking back to the grief I had with it and windows. I held little hope for the advancement of the company back then and thinking that would be my last AMD chip. Heh, I've built one intel system in the last 3 years and the future just seems to get rosier. How this company has grown, and to think, they used to be the laughing stock of the industry. (well at least among gamers) Go AMD! Now if Intel would get it's arse in gear.......
(2 replies) #7 SaLiVa on 15 Nov 2004 - 08:39
How low end is low end? I'd really like to see a heatsinkless processor (One requiring no heatsink ) Or something for an mp3 player. Only VIA has these chips... I dont thikn a Pentium 150Mhz could cut it (And I broke mine )
#7.1 Jugalator on 15 Nov 2004 - 10:15
"I'd really like to see a heatsinkless processor"

I wouldn't mind the heatsink as long as it was fanless.
#7.2 tiwaris on 17 Nov 2004 - 12:02
I wouldn't mind the fan if it was noiseless.

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