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To: grimes who wrote (185250)1/25/2006 10:23:12 PM
From: Joe NYCRespond to of 275872
 
grimes,

"...the availability of a dual-core Turion 64...". Given that AMD has delivered DC Athlons and Opterons, is a DC Turion *that* difficult.

Overlooking lack of 64 bitness, Dothan and Yonah are tough competitors, and the challenge for Turion is to arrive at competitive power consumption and at the same time be performance competitive with Yonah on 32 bit code.

SC Turion did fine against Intel's strongest processor - Dothan - (eventually), but now, Intel significantly improved its strongest processor, which means that it is a challenge to stay competitive, much more so than DC server or desktop parts, which compete with Intel's weak Netburst line.

Joe



To: grimes who wrote (185250)1/25/2006 10:24:55 PM
From: cruzbayRespond to of 275872
 
I'm guessing that they felt that some power optimizations were necessary, so it was significantly more than just releasing a dual core version of the existing Turion. For that matter, maybe they are waiting until SiGe 90 nm is available, tilting the 20% product of power or performance toward the former. Just my two cents.


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