AMD will unfold its plan to take on Intel's Atom in November, newly promoted CEO Dirk Meyer said last night.
AMD's is
currently working on a chip codenamed 'Bobcat', a single-core, 64-bit
processor designed for low-cost laptops and Small, Cheap Computers.
Past leaks have indicated that Bobcat will debut with a 1GHz clock
speed, 128KB of L1 cache, 256KB of L2 cache and an 800MHz
HyperTransport link out to the rest of the system. Its on-board memory
controller will handle 400MHz DDR 2 chips.
The whole thing is set to consume no more than 8W and sit inside an
812-pin, 27mm
AMD confirms 'Atom-smasher' chip