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03-02-2008, 11:58 PM
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| | | Intel's Silverthorn becomes Atom
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Another brain-shattering announcement that you've all been waiting for is here. Intel has officially dubbed the Silverthorn and Diamondville chips "Atom," and the Menlow platform has become the "Centrino Atom." We know, it's hard to believe the day has come, but it's finally happened. Obviously, the 45nm Atom chips, and Centrino Atom technology will be targeted for MIDs, UMPCs, and all manner of small, internet-centric devices. Undoubtedly an unending vista of total awesomeness awaits us now that they've got some fancy new names.
| AMD better pick up the pace with Intel releasing all this new technology.
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03-03-2008, 10:12 AM
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| | | I've been using the Macbook Air (which is outfitted with one of these CPU's) all weekend and I have to say, these processors are really nice. This thing handles all I throw at it and more. Stuff that would smoke my old Centrino 1.8 is smooth as silk on this laptop. |
03-03-2008, 11:41 AM
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| | | AMD, is this going to add on to your future tombstone?
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03-03-2008, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Craig  I've been using the Macbook Air (which is outfitted with one of these CPU's) all weekend and I have to say, these processors are really nice. This thing handles all I throw at it and more. Stuff that would smoke my old Centrino 1.8 is smooth as silk on this laptop. | I've been waiting for them to finally release wtf CPU was in those! |
03-03-2008, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by DominiKing AMD, is this going to add on to your future tombstone? | AMD's best market is the server platform. They've survived the "AMD Killer" Core 2 Duo/Quad. I don't think there going anywhere. They've survived on smaller market-share before.
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03-03-2008, 12:38 PM
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| | | this technology is great. however, that name = dumb. intel fail
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03-03-2008, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Dukefrukem I've been waiting for them to finally release wtf CPU was in those! | its a core two duo, shrunk down...it's pretty damn amazing that intel was able to engineer this chip. |
03-03-2008, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by SonicSpeed AMD's best market is the server platform. They've survived the "AMD Killer" Core 2 Duo/Quad. I don't think there going anywhere. They've survived on smaller market-share before. | survived? or just shot in the groin and left to die a long, agonizing death
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