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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Petz who wrote (86309)	1/10/2000 2:03:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1572497

Petz - <AMD may waste a watt of power and lack the "changing speed on the fly" feature, but by not having a dual-power-specific core, they will save themselves the grief of bad forecasts.> I don't see it this way at all. Automatic power switching capability in the IT / Business sector will be a strong selling feature, IMHO. PB

To: Petz who wrote (86309)	1/10/2000 2:10:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1572497

Petz, Laptops might like the speed change to save battery power. This can probably be done by measuring the intensiveness of CPU activity and having a program automatically slow the clock so that the task at hand is completed at the right pace. So reading static text will get really slow, then a few fast cycles to upgrade to the next page, same for WP. If you are doing large graphic file manipulation on the plane...take an extra battery. Probably they can have at least a 10:1 to 20:1 speed range and most people will be quite happy and the battery will last far longer. Bill