AMD confirms 'Atom-smasher' chip

by Panagiotis Georgiadis on: 07/19/2008 08:31 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

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

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