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Articles: Editorial

X-bit labs CeBIT 2005 Coverage: Day 2 (page 2)

Category: Editorial

by Anton Shilov

[ 03/12/2005 | 05:50 AM ]

AMD Outlines Turion 64, Dual-Core Plans

AMD is showing off a system powered by its dual-core processor as well as revealing the Turion 64 chip at the show.

An Alienware box running AMD’s Athlon 64 dual-core chip is not allowed to be benchmarked or explored, thus, it is unknown what the core-speed of the central processing unit is. The computer itself is a noisy one, but that, according to AMD is a problem of particular design, as generally the dual-core Athlon 64 is designed for the same type of infrastructure as the company’s 90nm desktop chips. While the dual-core products have 110W TDP compared to 105W TDP of modern single-core chips, AMD says the dual-core desktop AMD64 products will be able to operate on current mainboards fine.

AMD has just introduced its Athlon 64 chip for mobiles with 35W and 25W thermal envelope code-named Ivanhoe and generally known as Turion 64. Unfortunately, not a lot of notebook makers actually showcase the Turion 64 notebooks on the show, but this should improve as time goes by, says AMD.

The AMD Turion 64 processors will be marked with product numbers and will come in two product series: ML and MT with 35W and 25W TDP respectively. The lowest speed grade of the Turion 64 is ML and MT-30 that runs at 1.60GHz.