The company is enjoying a resurgence thanks to demand for efficient, low-power processor designs.
At the low-end, AMD announced Bobcat, a design for a low-power processor that can be used in consumer electronics devices.
Brazos has low-power processor, so with the launch of Llano, AMD will be looking to better its position in the heavier performance notebook segment as well.
That's the quick and not entirely complete explanation for why Nvidia moved last Sunday to counter Intel 's foray into processors for mobile devices with an expanded low-power processor line of its own, dubbed Tegra.
That's the quick and not entirely complete explanation for why Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) moved last Sunday to counter Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) foray into processors for mobile devices with an expanded low-power processor line of its own, dubbed Tegra.
"Temash" is AMD's elite low-power mobility processor for Windows 8 tablets and hybrids.
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Running it all is an low-power ARM-based embedded processor.
One thing that could enable is faster and more secure mobile devices, the kind of low-power gizmos for which the Atom processor was designed.
Needless to say, Ars thinks you'll have to make fewer such compromises in the not too distant future, what with things like cheaper SSD drives and VIA's low-power, high-performance Isaiah processor on the horizon.
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The chips will include an 800-megahertz ARM central processor--the same power-sipping design powering many smart phones--with a high-definition video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor and a tiny, low-power version of the GeForce graphics processors Nvidia pushes for desktop and laptop computers.
The Intel Atom processor S1200 product family is the first low-power SoC with server-class features offering as low as 6 watts1 of TDP.
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The Intel Atom processor S1200 product family is the first low-power SoC delivering required data center features that ensure server-class levels of reliability and manageability while also enabling significant savings in overall costs.
ENGADGET: Intel's Atom S1200 lays claim to title of world's first 6-watt server-class processor
Skaugen announced today that the company is bringing the low-power line of processors into its existing 3rd generation Intel Core processor family.
That marathon battery life is made possible in part by the slow-spinning 4, 200 rpm 30GB hard drive and low-power (in more ways than one) Core Solo U1300 processor, running at a sprightly 1.06GHz.
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The dual-core 1.8GHz processor (i3-3217U) is of the low-power variety that you'd typically find in laptops and comes soldered to the motherboard.
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And Globalfoundries and its customers have the pole position in high mobility, offering an ultra-low power mobile SoC with a whole ecosystem around it rather than just a processor.
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If one takes the ideas that heterogeneous computing is primarily about efficiency (read: low power usage), and that ARM, with its legacy in mobile phones, is known for low power usage, then a future that includes AMD parts with actual ARM processor cores running them suddenly seems likely.
More than 20 low-power designs including microservers, storage and networking systems use the Intel Atom processor S1200 family.
ENGADGET: Intel's Atom S1200 lays claim to title of world's first 6-watt server-class processor
Sony said the processor in the PS4 will be an 8-core low-power device created just for them by AMD.
Each node contained a small processor, a sensor and a low-powered radio with just enough power to talk to adjacent nodes and the network was just smart enough to reconfigure itself to reroute data whenever one node got damaged.
The solution includes an Audience Advanced Voice Processor core and a hardware accelerator engine, optimized to run computationally intensive audio algorithms with low power consumption.
In combination with a 1.0GHz VIA QuadCore E-Series processor, the VIA EPIA-P910 offers high performance computing in an ultra compact, low power design with today's latest connectivity options including HDMI and USB 3.0.
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