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To: dougSF30 who wrote (218990)12/5/2006 2:05:53 PM
From: Joe NYCRespond to of 275872
 
Doug,

I don't believe that AMD would decide to blow up the die from 105mm^2 to 125mm^2 to save 7W at idle.

If that is indeed the tradeoff, it certainly would make sense to go with larger die, lower idle power for notebooks...

Joe