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To: Joe NYC who wrote (4063)	8/9/2000 1:35:09 AM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 275872

Joe, <There is no such thing as a mobile Duron,> Yes there will be. For segmentation purposes I expect a Mobile Duron to ship with PC133 and Mobile Athlon to ship with DDR (mostly). <On subject of notebook CPUs, I think AMD claimed PowerNow will be available across the notebook lines. I think this feature would be useful in all CPUs, including Desktop and Server. I think 99% of all computers are candidates for being in automatic power saving mode. As I type this, the CPU should slow down to a crawl, and should use only a fraction of the power. Think how much energy could be saved if about half a billion computers out there use 5 Watts of power rather than say 25 Watts.> I agree with the philosophy. In practice this may or may not work out - especially at the high end. The tradeoffs made for true mobile chips and true high performance chips at implementation level tend to be quite different. Chuck