"The newly introduced AMD Athlon 64 3400+ functions at 2.40GHz and packs in 1MB level-two cache."

I guess this is wrong, it should be clocked at 2.20Ghz

"much less compared to 88W dissipated Intel’s Mobile Pentium 4 3.20GHz" - mobile Prescott dissipates up to 103W, TDP values are of any meaning. Comparing maximum power to typical power is somewhat, ehm.. you know.

"Intel’s Pentium M “Dothan” chips, which have TDP of about 21W." - Intel itself says 2GHz Dothan TDP 21W consumes more energy than 1.7GHz Banias TDP 24.5W -> TDP values are meaningless.

"Much less expensive and powerful AMD Athlon XP-M for ultra-portable PCs operates at 1.60GHz and implements 512KB of L2 cache. Its TDP is unknown." - wrong, it operates at 1.67GHz with 1.25V and it is Barton core with max. dissipation of 25W. 1.6GHz is 2100+ 25W Barton.

"TDP values are meaningless."

Not necessarily, depends how you look at it, you have to download the actual specs to see what they mean by it.

AMD, Intel and VIA say it with different conditions and such (It could be maximum, it could be average, you don't know until you actually do a little digging)...So they can't really be compared against each other. They can only be compare among the same brand of CPU.

Unless a third-party comes along and actually creates a database with measurements they do.

Whoppi! He's wrong, you're right. Do you want a medal?

Ok, but can we all agree this is a nice chip to see in the market? :)