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    AMD 45nm Tigris platform to battle Centrino 2 and Calpella

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Jayayess1190, May 18, 2009.

  1. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    Quicklite Notebook Deity

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    Awesome news...

    If it could compete at near the performance level of Intel's next best thing, and make some impacts with major manufacturers; before Calpella, and more importantly, Arrandale chips spread wide, then mobile market might be once again somethat competitive...

    The only problem I see, its this probably is directly going against 32nm Arrandale chips

    I honestly don't recall AMD processors in higher end laptop for too long now.
     
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  3. nu_D

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    I got excited until I read and remembered that Arrandale will be 32nm...

    I hope they can get it out there fast.... at least it would push Intel to get off their lazy bums.
    I think Intel offers the superior processors, but I also believe that without AMD, the prices would be much higher and the performance much lower for Intel chips. Hopefully AMD can make a big splash and really push Intel.
     
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    Evolution Vox Sola

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    I suspect Caspian won't be much, just a die shrink to 45nm from the current lion processor's 65nm and a bump in the hypertransport speed.

    Based on the roadmaps it looks like the new Caspian processor is not pin compatible with the current lion processors S1g3 vs S1g2 however we should wait to see how true this turns out to be. Again the chipset + GPU combination is probably going to continue to beat anything Intel has out currently.

    However I am looking forward to the 2010 setup. DDR3 + USB3 + Champlain core processor. I am also hoping for SATA 3 support as well. Hmm 6Gb/s and a fast SSD... :cool:
     
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    COMPLETELY agree. Don't expect miracles. Maybe more like Phenom Aegis to the Phenom II (which although did add some decent improvements like P stages)
     
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    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    According to some sites, this is just a die shrink of the current Turion ultra X2.
     
    Jayayess1190, May 18, 2009
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