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AMD catches Intel in mobile clock-speed race
By Sumner Lemon
November 12, 2001 4:14 pm PT
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (AMD) Monday introduced the latest versions of its mobile processors, the 1.2GHz mobile Athlon 4 and 950MHz mobile Duron processors. The new chips will compete head to head with Intel's fastest mobile Pentium III-M and mobile Celeron processors, which run at speeds as much as 1.2GHz and 933MHz, respectively.
Both the mobile Athlon 4 and mobile Duron processors use a 200MHz front-side bus and AMD's PowerNow power-management technology, which the company claims can extend battery life by as much as 30 percent. The mobile AMD Athlon 4 has 384KB of on-chip cache and the mobile Duron has 192KB of on-chip cache.
The 1.2GHz mobile Athlon 4 is priced at $525 and the 950MHz mobile AMD Duron processor is priced at $160, in 1,000-unit quantities. By comparison, Intel's 1.2GHz mobile Pentium III-M processor costs $722 and the 933MHz mobile Celeron processor costs $134, in 1,000 unit quantities.
The 1.2GHz mobile Athlon 4 and 950MHz mobile Duron will both find homes in Compaq Computer's Presario 700 series of consumer notebooks, AMD said in a statement. Those systems are expected to be available Nov. 21.
Sumner Lemon is an Asian correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate.
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