bit-tech.net: AMD Athlon Neo: The New Ultra-thin Platform

A low power version of K8. How 'smart' of AMD.
But really, why 690G chipset now instead of 780G?
Intel has Core Solo in its arsenal but no G4x chipset for ultra-thins.
So the ability to process and output HD video may be AMD's trump card.
I'll wait for 'Congo' platform (with 780G and Athlon Neo X2) just because it's more feature complete. The current 'Yukon' platform is enticing but not feature complete enough (i.e. M690T chipset).
Sure there's the optional HD3410. But discrete GPU would defeat the purpose of "ultra-thin" and present less elegant way of providing extra features (when there's a better solution sitting around).

HP dv2 pr0n. Nice...
The Magical AMD Yukon-based HP Pavilion dv2 Ultrathin Notebook - by Pat Moorhead

Being ultra thin, it saves weight and also being easily mobile but no matter how light it is, I prefer longer battery life and decent power. Enough for work and a few stuff running.

Best of all, h264 decoding with low power consumption. =D

retro ripping images off amd's blog lul.

Platform and all is one thing, but what I really care is how much heat it will generate and how long the battery will last. If they can make it cool + long battery life, old platform doesn't necessarily be a bad thing.

And yeah, I'm excited about that HP.

Intel's retaliating later this year. Should be variants of ULV Core 2's.

Athlon Neo + M690T = 25W
Atom + 945 = 25W

13in is a lot of space to dissipate heat. If they can do it with 7in then 13in should be piece of cake.
Anyone got info on GM45's process tech? The desktop version's power dissipation is higher than G31's. Maybe we'll see the return of good ol' GM965 with ULV Core 2.

Atom + 945 on 25Watt is their mini-ITX board right? The netbooks uses less power iirc, excluding pelipherals and screen.

You're right. But the overall performance is much better. And Intel's stupid decision to limit Atom to tiny screens isn't helping. I'll vouch for Athlon Neo for practicality and performance. With 780G chipset it'll be better.

I just recently have a chance to test with various system running an Interbase database server. Mostly older system, here's what I found out:

Among the system I tested -
2.8Ghz P4 northwood core is the fastest.
1.8Ghz Pentium D, pretty close, can't really tell, but then it has more ram still not going faster so I give it 2nd
2.2Ghz Celeron, new one, I assume it's using core architecture, probably as fast as the pentium D.
1.6Ghz Celeron, don't know which one, but almost 2x slower than the 2.8Ghz Northwood.
1.2Ghz Duron Morgan core, a little slower than 1.6.
And lastly...
Atom 1.6Ghz, it's like 5-10 time slower than the 1.6Ghz Celeron, even with more ram.

Problem is, the cpu isn't even running, cpu time is at 5%~ but nothing else moves. I can only think of it as in order processing vs out of order processing...



Well, people will say you don't need more for surfing web, streaming youtube, running office application, basic multimedia etc etc. But then after setting up 175 Atom powered pc for the pass 3 weeks, I'd say the wall is very near for you to hit... er.. whatever.

I think for cheap(er) portable processing power, yukon platform might just hit the right spot (since celeron mobile use more power and ULV models is, well, slow, with nothing in between to close the gap).

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/AMD-Will-Ship-DualCore-Athlon-Neo-for-Ultraportable-Laptops-Later-this-Year/

Congo platform H2 2009 it is......

Atom is just another good Intel PR tactic. Wish AMD improves on that...
Athlon Neo X2 might be ULV version of Turion Ultra in Puma platform. It might use K10.5 architecture next year. No 45nm K8 I guess.

Yes i will buy