AMD Reveals New Mobile Technologies

MojoKid writes "AMD disclosed a few details today regarding their upcoming mobile platform technologies, codenamed 'Griffin' and 'Puma'. According to AMD, Griffin will be manufactured at 65nm and it will feature a new mobile optimized on-die Northbridge with a power optimized DDR2 memory controller, HyperTransport 3 connectivity, and larger L2 caches than current designs. The new memory controller should also extend battery life thanks to new power saving features, that allow the controller to operate on a separate power plane and at a lower voltage than the execution cores."

SFF PCs?

[PhrostyMcByte]

How viable are these for sticking into a SFF PC, to be used as a small media center capable of playing h264. That's what I want to know :)

And what about PC-on-a-chip?

[Raven737]

I wonder how long before AMD makes a PC-on-a-chip, like VIA did. [linuxdevices.com]
Now with ATI they should have all the required components for that (good graphics controller etc).

I am thinking ultra ultra portable =)

Weight and battery life

[owlstead]

As long as the advertisements don't include weight (and adapter weight if possible) and battery life in their commercials, it might not be worth it to go for the ultra-compatible arena. Here in the Netherlands at least they even put in commercials for ultra-thins without noting the weight and the battery life, even if these figures are more than decent. The difference seems to be made by a 80 or 100 GB HDD, which I don't care about for a bit.

Re:Low power, excellent ... now on graphics please

[TheRaven64]

Power has been a driving force for a lot of big consumers for a while now. A former Intel chief architect told me that their first wake-up call came when a company in NYC told them that they couldn't upgrade their machines from i486 to Pentium because their building's power distribution system couldn't handle the extra load. It took them a few years for this to filter all the way to the chip design teams (the P6 was already under development then, and NetBurst was in the very early design phase), but this kind of feedback made the NetBurst design team aware that they were the last group that was ever going to be able to make 'fast' their primary design goal.

Re:Low power AMD platform needed

[ronadams]

Keep in mind that this DRM includes not only the encryption algos but also software to monitor files and attempt to determine if they require licensing. Also, there's a fair bit of behind-the-scenes crap in Vista, spying on media files. Windows = Bloat. Sorry MSFT fans; it's just true.