No subject

<br>
<br>
&lt;begin quote&gt;<br>
<br>
AMD is NOT halting production of the Geode. They are not leaving the<br>
market (RTFM!). They have decided that it serves it&#39;s niche AS IS and<b=
r>
will be kept AS IS. That&#39;s a very different statement. They&#39;re sayi=
ng<br>
that it is a mature product (a rare thing in IT).<br>
<br>
Currently, the Geode is good enough for many applications and would be<br>
a step up for others. The embedded world tends away from the shiny<br>
object model of upgrades. If it worked last year, it works this year,<br>
and it&#39;ll work next year. Changes in the product are considered<br>
undesirable.<br>
<br>
AMD&#39;s statement doesn&#39;t even mean there won&#39;t be a die shrink o=
r even<br>
a faster Geode in the future, just that they won&#39;t be updating it&#39;s=
<br>
architecture.<br>
<br>
It&#39;s not a bad decision either. There is a significant niche for the<br=
>
Geode between the Atom (too hot, too power hungry) and things like the<br>
Dragon Ball and mips (not enough power).<br>
<br>
Geode isn&#39;t in trouble until Intel comes out with an x86 that doesn&#39=
;t<br>
need a heatsink (or at least doesn&#39;t need a fan).</blockquote><div></di=
v><div>This is also referred to, in another thread, but the Atom draws very=
 little power. I already referred that you can get an Atom that has a 0.65W=
 TDP, not 3.whatever like in the Geode LX. These are the Z series and they =
draw very little power, top of 2.4W for the 1866MHz model. The other low-en=
d chip(also $20), the Z510, has a TDP of 2W - any one of these can run with=
out an &quot;heatsink&quot;, mostly a small metal plate that allows the sil=
icon core to dissipate heat, since it&#39;s a fliped-chip design. The Z500 =
is obviously very very good for embedded applications.</div>
<div></div><div>The Z series use a lower power CMOS bus, instead of the pow=
er hungry GTL+, which when paired with Poulsbo it should make for a remarka=
ble package. The next iteration will also have the graphics core and some o=
ther stuff embedded, for further savings.</div>
<div></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; =
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Tiago Marques</div>=
</div>

--0015174c347e4c76600461f577d2--