SoopaStar
07-05-2000, 04:22 PM
I just read the new Article, "Micron's Samurai DDR Chipset" (http://sysopt.earthweb.com/articles/samurai/index.html). And I was wondering how old this article was...? Here is why:
The current production Athlon requires too much power to be an effective mobile CPU, but next generation .18 micron K7s will be much more power efficient.
If I am not mistaken, the newer Athlons (like the 750 I just got) are .18 micron based cores. Also, I thought the newer durons and T-birds were also based on this. I figured the duron would be a shoe-in for the laptop community and would work well with this chipset?
I find it very interesting and was also wondering where Rob got his info from so I could do some more reading up on it. If Micron can get a dual Athlon system going, I bet you can see Intel loosing a decent size of its SMP market share to them. I know Rob is a smart guy, but I was taught all through high school and college to cite my work http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif
I would like to have found out more information about the systems, cost comparisons to current technologies, etc. Maybe there is a Part II in the near future?
Paul
The current production Athlon requires too much power to be an effective mobile CPU, but next generation .18 micron K7s will be much more power efficient.
If I am not mistaken, the newer Athlons (like the 750 I just got) are .18 micron based cores. Also, I thought the newer durons and T-birds were also based on this. I figured the duron would be a shoe-in for the laptop community and would work well with this chipset?
I find it very interesting and was also wondering where Rob got his info from so I could do some more reading up on it. If Micron can get a dual Athlon system going, I bet you can see Intel loosing a decent size of its SMP market share to them. I know Rob is a smart guy, but I was taught all through high school and college to cite my work http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif
I would like to have found out more information about the systems, cost comparisons to current technologies, etc. Maybe there is a Part II in the near future?
Paul