AMD's Centrino challenger: Turion

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Turion is the brand name of a new line of energy-efficient notebook processors Advanced Micro Devices will come out with in the first half of 2005. It is chipmaker's response to Intel's Centrino notebook technology, company executives said at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.

 

While the company did not reveal any technical specifications on the chip, AMD said Turion will fit into thin and light notebooks and be optimized for extending battery power. Currently, AMD mostly sells notebook chips for "performance" notebooks, which provide desktoplike computing power but can sap batteries and generate heat.

 

The company's Athlon 64 notebook chips come with thermal ceilings ranging from 25 watts to 62 watts. By contrast, the Pentium M, the processor at the heart of the Centrino chip bundle, has a thermal ceiling of about 20 watts. The thermal ceiling gauges how much heat the processor can produce without endangering the performance of the notebook.

 

The chip will essentially allow AMD to compete more effectively in the lucrative notebook market. In recent years, Intel has enjoyed a wider market share in notebooks than in desktops, in part because of the Centrino chip bundle.

 

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Knowing AMD, the Turion will prolly top the Centrino...

[Gryph]

It's nice that AMD is getting into this part of the market, they need to diversify and get into whatever Intel is doing and get all in their face. That way we, as customers, will see some great advancements. Hopefully...

[Ryuken]

It's nice that AMD is getting into this part of the market, they need to diversify and get into whatever Intel is doing and get all in their face. That way we, as customers, will see some great advancements. Hopefully...

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and maybe then, intel will lower their cpu prices