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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (50847)	8/12/2001 7:04:09 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re:it looks like the mobile Athlon 4 is quite competitive with the new Pentium III-M regarding power consumption. Performance should be even better in automatic mode because of the greater number of possible clock-speed changes. As AMD moves to .13 and SOI, it should become the dominant player in mobiles and small form factor servers. We know P4 uses twice the power PIII uses, and can predict that it won't be a very competitive mobile or small form factor server chip - especially when mobile P4 will lack SOI, and the competition will have SOI. Intel will have high power consumption, but its high nominal clock speed chips should let it take back a lot of the retail market. Kind of a reverse of the traditional market shares of the two companies.

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (50847)	8/13/2001 10:44:13 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Andreas: So it looks like the mobile Athlon 4 is quite competitive with the new Pentium III-M regarding power consumption. With the superior (although not as much as it used to be!) power management of the A4, yes, you are probably correct. However, I would wager a pretty penny that (both) the chipset(s) available to AMD in a mobile setting use considerably more power than Intel's new mobile chipset (or even its old one). DDR-SDRAM would help AMD, but it doesn't appear ready for mobiles yet. I wonder why? (packaging, maybe?) -fyo