There are relatively few AMD processors in the notebook field.
A few manufacturers such as Xiamen Xin, Shenzhou, Asus, and Hewlett-Packard produce AMD notebook computers, but as players understand the high cost performance of AMD processors, there will be more and more notebook computers using AMD processors.
On March 10, 2005, AMD officially released the Turion 64 series mobile processors, which adopt 90nm SOI technology, support SSE3 multimedia extended instruction set, support 64-bit operations, and can realize NX bit function under WinXP SP2, and support power saving. Technology PowerNow! The MT series in Turion 64 consumes only 25W, and because it is based on the K8 architecture, it is generally believed that its performance will also be very strong. Once the processor was released, it was generally considered to have the potential of a "Centrino Killer".
As early as March 9, 2005, AMD announced that it would start selling 64-bit Turion notebook chips. Of course, its purpose was obvious, no doubt to compete with Intel's Centrino chips. This naturally reminds people of AMD's eye-catching market performance in the desktop CPU field in recent years, and now it is the notebook CPU market. In the fast-growing PC market, AMD is expected to gain a foothold.
At present, in the face of the notebook market, AMD also sells mobile CPUs in the form of Athlon and Sempron, but it seems to have been living in the shadow of INTEL's Pentium M and Celeron M. In addition to INTEL's overwhelming publicity, AMD can only compete in the two. According to the statistics of IDC, a market research organization, in 2004, AMD's sales volume in the notebook chip market was less than 9%, while Intel accounted for 86% of the market share. However, market data in recent years shows that the sales growth of notebook PCs is faster than that of desktop PCs, which naturally shows that the demand for notebook chips will increase greatly, and accordingly, manufacturers in this field will be able to obtain more Interests. To this end, in January this year, AMD announced the Turion brand for the first time, and launched a Turion processor with 64-bit technology specifically for the ultra-thin notebook computer market. And, hope it becomes the secret weapon for victory.
We know that the Pentium M processor, with its excellent performance and low power consumption, combined with Centrino wireless technology, makes it a great advantage in mobile processors. However, the Turion 64 mobile processor launched by AMD has the same architecture as the K8 processor, supports x86-64 instructions, uses 90nm, has a clock frequency of 1.6GHz-2.0GHz, and 1MB L2 Cache. It is known that Turion 64 will is E0Stepping, so it will support the SSE3 instruction set. In terms of power consumption, 1.6GHz-1.8Ghz will be 25W, while the top 2.0GHz model will be 35W. From the data, we can see that this processor will likely give Pentium M a lot of pressure. In addition, unlike INTEL, AMD allows PC makers to choose wireless cards and chipsets from other suppliers, a decision that gives customers the flexibility to design their own systems, as well as gather more downstream customers. AMD said that Turion64 will initially bring seven models to the market, with prices ranging from $189 to $354. Compared to Intel's Centrino brand chip price of $ 209-637. The advantages are equally obvious.
On the other hand, Microsoft has recently released a new 64-bit operating system "WindowsXP Professional x64 Edition". For this reason, in order to truly enjoy the pleasant experience brought by 64-bit, it is necessary to choose a 64-bit CPU. In terms of desktop CPU, We can choose Athlon 64 or some Pentium 4, but in the mobile CPU space, we only have AMD Turion64 to choose. According to related reports, the latest system requirements for the well-known Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Longhorn, for notebooks are Intel CPU: 1.86 GHz Pentium M processor 750 or higher, while AMD's processor requirements are only defined as 64 There is no clock frequency limit, that is to say, any AMD 64-bit mobile processor can support the extremely demanding Longhorn operating system, so choosing an AMD 64-bit notebook will easily avoid the obstacle of upgrading the Longhorn system in the future, it can be said once and for all .