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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (162456)	6/27/2005 12:42:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) of 275872

Re: Dothan core is the low power champ I think you're wrong here. While the core uses only a small fraction of the transistors on the chip, the core is what uses most of the power (models with larger caches double the total number of transistors and more, from both Intel or AMD, without changing power use). A 64-bit core has twice the number of high speed / high power transistors as a 32 bit core. Intel can't make a 64-bit Dothan, not even a derivative a year from now, because it would use too much power - they've flat out stated that. AMD can do what Intel can't in the mobile segment, and AMD's SOI process is certainly part of the reason why. AMD has been seeing win after win for its 64-bit mobile chips, even after Intel spent what must be a Billion dollars by now to make mobile synonymous with Centrino / Pentium M (driving the functionally similar XP-M pretty much out of the market in the process). Intel's inability to make a mobile part that can run the latest version of windows is what's brought AMD back into the mobile market - and it's partly thanks to AMD's superior process technology.

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