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To: Paul Engel who wrote (120209)	12/2/2000 8:56:24 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Paul, The fact that Intel's design teams used Low Power Dissipation as a major design goal has helped them DOMINATE this segment - especially in light of AMD's speed-at-any-cost-power-be-damned AthWiper design. This probably isn't very fair. PIII is based on a mature core which has been through many years of power saving improvements. The original Pentium Pros were very power hungry, but years of work made them increasingly practical in the portable market. Athlon has only been on the market for 1-1/2 years, and AMD is close to releasing their first low power version. One simple technique for saving power is downbinning fast parts and dropping their voltage. A 30% voltage reduction cuts power consumption by 50%. A 50% drop in frequency reduces power consumption by an additional 50%. It might be possible to take a 1.2GHz part, and run it at 600MHz with a 75% power reduction. Relatively minor changes to the design can probably save another 50%, so I will not be surprised if we see Athlon notebook parts that reduce power consumption to 1/8 the current level. Scumbria

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