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To: Dan3 who wrote (259679)	4/13/2009 11:23:18 AM
From: wbmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Nehalem isn't a notebook chip, Sabine is what Larrabee will have to face. Sorry, Dan, but you're wrong on two counts. Nehalem will have two mobile variants, both Clarksfield (45nm quad core) and Arrandale (32nm dual core with CPU graphics). en.wikipedia.org The second thing is that Larrabee is a late 2009 / early 2010 discrete graphics part built using an x86 many core architecture. Sabine will contend with Intel's 2011 integrated graphics, most likely paired with a Sandy Bridge core. Re: What's really hard to understand is why it's going to take AMD 2 years to ship a chip package tailored to thin and light notebooks. The stark reality, Dan, is that AMD is only so big, and in their kind of financial position they need to cut costs and use their resources effectively. For example, there's no sense in offering a more compact chip package when the CPU micro-architecture going into it is based on an inefficient K10 core. Maybe Llano will be a more efficient mobile based micro-architecture. Then again, it might only be as successful as Griffin.