> This might have interesting implications for AMD's new Bulldozer CPU coming out later
> this year..which is basically a much faster version of this technology...i think.
The problem with that comparison is that Atom isn't any version of the Core 2 technology. It's got a lot of baked-in performance deficiencies in the name of trying to lower power usage enough to displace ARM in phones with "Wintel" (which they failed spectacularly at, to the extent that MS decided to port Windows to ARM instead). Zacate is aimed more at low-end notebooks where you can blow a few watts here and there on performance.
> If not faster, then maybe just as fast as Sandybridge in MAME?...which would be a big
> improvement over the Phenom II/Core 2 Duo situation..
Sandy Bridge is two things: it's around 5-10% faster per-clock than Wolfdale, and it's Intel's insanely mature process technology that lets me overclock a random mass-produced sample to 4.8 GHz on air. I would love to see AMD compete again there (who knew when they bought ATI that they'd be GPU leaders but lose CPU competitiveness?) but it's not looking good (especially with SNB shipping now and Bulldozer due in 6 months).
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