AMD Neo

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Iako je AMD demantovao da je ovaj CPU namenjan netbook trzishtu, sve njeove kararkteristike upucuju da je ovaj CPU upucen bash u tom pravcu

Despite previous claims that AMD had no plans to enter the netbook CPU market, rumour has it that just such a chip is set to be announced late this week, according to APC Magazine. CEO Dirk Meyer had previously suggested such a CPU would hit in November, before being contradicted by Chief Marketing Officer Nigel Dessau, so presumably the company had a change of heart.

Is this AMD's rival to Atom?

The supposed chip will focus on two of the areas where netbooks have, to this point, still struggled a bit; namely video playback performance and battery life. Reports suggest AMD is aiming for an eight to nine hour battery life while still offering better performance that its rival, Intel's Atom CPU.


Should such claims be borne out it will be interesting to see what Intel does to counter. Dual-core Atom systems are expected to hit some time soon, although they're not necessarily intended for netbook-type systems. A pair of cores with Hyper Threading on top should definitely provide for some multi-tasking horsepower. Not that the average netbook user is likely to want for more performance from a single-core Atom chip, if you ask me.

Still, I definitely won't complain if we get faster chips drawing less power. No matter whose badge is branded into them.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/cpu-memory/news/2008/11/11/Rumour--AMD-Netbook-CPU-Launching-This-Week/p1

 

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AMD Athlon Neo: Cost Effective Powerful Mobility?
Manufacturer: AMD

It's like a marketing buzzword masterpiece, or mayhem, depending on which way you look at it, but having tried to sum up what AMD is aiming for in its new Athlon Neo product is difficult to say the least.

AMD didn't want to just "make an Atom" - jumping in an Intel bandwagon when it's never been strong in the mobile realm is not an idea that AMD seems to relish, and besides, most of the Silverthorne team designing the Atom CPU were reassigned from the fabled Tejas project in 2005. This would mean for AMD to design a "true" Atom-esq CPU, it would have to think three years ahead.

Regardless of this fact, AMD has good reason to avoid it: AMD is targeting the ultra-thin ten to 13-inch, $499 to $1,499 segment between sub-$499 netbook and big, clunky mainstream notebooks. It's a brave move, but we think it's a clever one - if you look at any cheap notebook now on sale it's either 15.4-inch brick with a mix of cheap parts or an ultra teeny netbook that's barely capable of running video, let alone do two things at once.

There's nothing "inexpensive" but also quite powerful - enough to be really productive: multitasking, editing photos (the one thing that has personally stopped me getting a netbook: Adobe Photoshop), and just the few things that are a bit more intensive than basic computing. To get a good ultra-thin solution it's either a netbook like the Samsung NC10 or Acer Aspire One or, at the other end of the scale, it's a Sony TZ, Lenovo ThinkPad X300 or Macbook Air - there is literally nothing inbetween.

AMD is attempting to carve the market up once more with its new Yukon platform, headed up by the Athlon Neo CPU and 690T northbridge. Note that I didn't use "new" for the CPU because it's still the same old K8 core, just respinned into a slightly new design. Since AMD was kind enough to give some good friends of ours their pink slips just before Christmas, we've been finding it difficult to hone down some of the finer details right now but what we do know is this:
AMD Athlon Neo MV-40:
1.6GHz single core with a 15W TDP
512k L2 cache, 64k L1 data and instruction caches
AMD Sempron 200U:
1.0GHz single core
256k L2 cache, 64k L1 data and instruction caches
AMD Sempron 210U:
1.5GHz single core
256k L2 cache, 64k L1 data and instruction caches
Built on the 65nm SOI process
Embedded design, not socket
AMD 690T northbridge and SB600 southbridge based on the UMC 65nm process - platform total TDP is 27W (for Athlon Neo)
HyperTransport 1.0
The launch speed matches the Intel Atom and the cache sizes are business as usual for an Athlon K8 CPU, however the 15W TDP is significantly more than the Atom's 4-8W, but remember the Neo has more cache, an integrated memory controller and importantly - out of order execution for much improved performance.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2009/01/06/amd-athlon-neo-the-new-ultra-thin-platform/1

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9484_15931,00.html

 

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Prvi laptop sa ovim procesorom

Processor: 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo 64-bit processor
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3410 (256MB dedicated memory)
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium with SP 1 (32-bit)
Screen: 12.1" HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
Memory: 3GB (up to 4GB configurable)
Storage: 160GB HDD
Optical Drive: External Blu-ray Drive with Double Layer Support
Wireless and Communications: 802.11b/g WLAN
Battery: 4-cell Li-Ion

HP Pavilion dv2

 

[CooLa]

Konacno da se AMD vrati u portable vode... Gde ga je intel centrino platforma kidala...

 

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Meni je ovaj HP tako neverovatno lep laptop da je to strashno. Nazalost cena mu je paprena, a ni nema ga kod nas.

 

[CooLa]

Polako, pasce cena, kad se omasovi ponuda

 

[activated1]

Polako, pasce cena, kad se omasovi ponuda

Neverujem da ce toliko da padne da bi ga mogao okarakterisati kao povoljnog u mom sluchaju, al bi se vrlo obradovao kad bi izashao neki MSI Wind ili ASUS EEE na ovoj platformi

 

[brankko]

Yukon ima da pojede centrino... prevashodno zbog grafike... Veliki aduti AMD-a su i niska potrosnja...

Anyway, ASUS je vec sklepao video-telefon (Eee+Linux+Skype) baziran na AMD-ovoj platformi...

 

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Iskreno se nadam da ce ASUS u svoju novu EEE seriju da uvrsti i ovu platformu jer sam siguran da ce da bude pun pogodak

 

[Igoritza]

hm ... zar se nije ovkva vrsta procesora od AMD-a u razvoju nazivala Bobcat ?

 

[brankko]

Pa imali su oni i ranije te niskopotrosne (za one mini racunare koji su emded sve u jednom...) kako god da su se zvali... Geode, right?

 

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Pa imali su oni i ranije te niskopotrosne (za one mini racunare koji su emded sve u jednom...) kako god da su se zvali... Geode, right?

Jeste Geode je upitanju, al su napustili taj projekat

Evo gde je Geode nashao praktichnu primenu

http://www.fic.com.tw/product/minipc.aspx

 

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Prvi laptop sa ovim procesorom

Processor: 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo 64-bit processor
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 3410 (256MB dedicated memory)
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium with SP 1 (32-bit)
Screen: 12.1" HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
Memory: 3GB (up to 4GB configurable)
Storage: 160GB HDD
Optical Drive: External Blu-ray Drive with Double Layer Support
Wireless and Communications: 802.11b/g WLAN
Battery: 4-cell Li-Ion

HP Pavilion dv2

E lap top je prelep...

 

[Shiki]

Koja je cena, neshto nisam trazio na netu, a vidim kod nas ga nema?

U svakom slucaju je prelep, 12" - dakle dovoljno malo i prenosno a opet dovoljno veliko za malo komotniji rad nego na Windu kog sam imao ... Bash mi se svidja

 

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Koja je cena, neshto nisam trazio na netu, a vidim kod nas ga nema?

U svakom slucaju je prelep, 12" - dakle dovoljno malo i prenosno a opet dovoljno veliko za malo komotniji rad nego na Windu kog sam imao ... Bash mi se svidja

mislim da je napolju oko 700$, kod nas ga nema koliko znam. Josh jedna zanimljiva stvar je da uz njega ide extreni BD shto npr olakshava reinstalaciju OS-a