tomshardware.com — Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few year. While much of the success will depend on unit numbers, sources told TG Daily that Atom will be big cash cow for Intel.
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cavedogMar 29, 2008
the cost to make Atom is 6-8, retail is estimated at 29-49 or so.
iofthestormMar 29, 2008
I plan on burying you./disclose personal burying idea
geminitojanusMar 29, 2008
Except your modern Celeron will be roughly twice the speed of Atom, clock for clock.
aiwaneiMar 29, 2008
back when it was athlon 64 vs p4, the athlon 64 blew the p4 out of the water in price, power consumption, and power. I had a few pc's with them and never had any reliability problems. That being said I did have a k6 burn out in like a week.
hyperion1144Mar 29, 2008
Cyrix and NexGen became part of AMD (they bought them out long ago). As I understand the story, way back, when the Pentium was king, the startups all tried to develop their own Pentuim-class CPUs in house. Cyrix worked on the the 6x86, Nexgen on the NX686, and AMD on the K6. In the process, they all basically decided that they couldn't do this on their own, but might be able to do it together. Cyrix and NexGen were bought out by AMD. As I recall, AMD took one look at the NX686 by the NexGen team, threw out the CPU they were working on (the K6) and just finished out the NX686 and released under the K6 name. The K6 was actually designed by NexGen. The Cyrix 6x86 was either licensed to VIA, or Cyrix was sold them outright, because after that we saw some of the Cyrix-class CPUs released to market as ultra-low cost CPUs from VIA.The NexGen team was, for awhile, a large contributor to AMD's success. It would appear the magic might be gone, though.DISCLAIMER: I just pulled that little history out of the Way Back machine in my head. If it is inaccurate, I apologize... Anybody else remember the Pentium wars shaking out like this? I am pretty sure this is right...
heinousjayMar 29, 2008
The dawn of time was in the 90s? Then why the hell do I feel so old?
redxxxMar 31, 2008
Yeah, f**k AMD! Intel doesn't need competitors.
daverave999Apr 3, 2008
Yeah, cos research and development are FREEEEEEEE!