AMD Expects Next-Gen Chip to Cut Power Consumption by Half.

Advanced Micro Devices' way towards Fusion of central processing units and graphics processing units has been long, but it seems to be about paying off as the company announces an ultra-low power accelerated processing unit with as low as 17.5W power consumption amid high level of performance to arrive in 2012.

"We plan to introduce a version of Trinity that will consume less than 50% the power of today's lowest power, 35W Llano APU, bringing performance computing to the ultra-thin notebooks," said Thomas Seifert, interim chief exec of AMD, during the discussion of financial results of the company with financial analysts.

Trinity is the first microprocessor that AMD showcased physically that features the company's next-generation Bulldozer x86 processing engines along with a new-generation Radeon graphics engine (presumably utilizing VLIW4 micro-architecture). Apparently, it has a lot of advantages beyond performance over current products.

"We put out a pretty interesting power-consumption specification. I don't know if we really want to go into more details about that product at this time, other than the fact that we're going to continue to invest in leading in the mobile space," said Mr. Seifert

AMD Expects Next-Gen Chip to Cut Power Consumption by Half - X-bit labs

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Nice. AMD might just slice, barely, into a niche that Intel is targeting on the lower end of (with their new Ultrabook "platform," IMO, like the Intel Atom focus some time ago that got closed up, partially, with AMD Zacate).

 

The sad thing is that the notebook makers think Intels "Ultrabook" platform is to expensive and would cut to much of their profits.

Still rooting for AMD, bring in the Bulldozer APUs.

 

That would be an impressive feat if AMD can pull that off! I'm very glad that the two chip makers are finally focusing on power efficiency, it's long over due.

 

It is important for us that want 8-12 hours/day battery. I don't specially care for ultralight.

 

which means they are targeting ULV segment which is great news. bobcat based apu's are good only for netbook segment.

Now I hope intel produces 12W ULV ivy bridge processor as claimed. Then 8-12 hours will become norm. Performance of i7-2677M is more than enough. Now we just need TDP/idle/active power consumption to go down.

 

And noise. I would get a big fanless laptop over a tiny with fans in an heartbeat.

 

I sure hope that comes true, AMD is great at low budget and low cpu need users. I want cpu power, thats the problem.

 

Well, Trinity will have the Bulldozer arch so the CPU should be able to suit most people.

 

I liked very much my old athlon XP, but now my needs go far from gaming, thus cpu power is a must, I actually liked how much smoother my i5 2415m runs photoshop or visual studio, than the P7350 that I had