AMD Next-Gen Mobile CPU "Griffin", on "Puma" platform, may come in 2008-Mid

[kyosen]

PC Watch reports that Nihon AMD officially anounced the next-generation mobile CPU/Platform, "Griffin"/"Puma".
Source: http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2007/0518/amd.htm

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[frankR]

AMD is a nonentity in the mobile market at the moment. Another market for them to tap into if they can. If you look at some of thread on this forum you'd think they're going out of bussiness soon. :lol:

[Shintai]

I like their graphics idea.

[kyosen]

Now Fudzilla provides a nice summary of quotation from the same source, PC Watch:
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1047&Itemid=1

[oanvoanc]

the switch between internal and external graphic without reboot sounds innovative :clap:

[pengizzle]

AMD is a nonentity in the mobile market at the moment. Another market for them to tap into if they can. If you look at some of thread on this forum you'd think they're going out of bussiness soon. :lol:

I got a TUrion sitting on my S754 Desktop Board!! :cool:

[Ubermann]

They should say mid 2009 and then it gets released at end of 2008 and people woud get happy how they could release it so soon.

[LowRun]

Very interesting solutions to some of the mobile requirements, looking forward for that platform.

[SaFrOuT]

a good reason to keep my CoreDuo 1.83 till the next year

[Cooper]

They should say mid 2009 and then it gets released at end of 2008 and people woud get happy how they could release it so soon.

Roadmap indicates H2 of 2008.

[nn_step]

looks like Mobile Ownage :D

[madcho]

high def slides here (http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/36449-AMD-Puma-Griffin-plateforme-mobile.htm)

[Shadowmage]

I like their graphics idea.

http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=48&page=5

PowerXpress was actually planned to be released earlier... dunno what had happened.

[savantu]

looks like Mobile Ownage :D

Is it ?

Griffin - due to ship late Q4, but probably not in systems you can buy until well into 2008 - packs in a pair of 65nm CPU cores and connects each of them to 1MB of L2 cache - up from the 512KB found in today's AMD laptop-friendly chips - and to a freshly designed Northbridge unit comprising a HyperTransport 3 controller and a memory manager.
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AMD Fellow Maurice Steinman told Register Hardware the CPU cores are almost transistor-for-transistor the same cores found in the 65nm Turion processors AMD launched earlier this month.

According to Steinman, much of the work on Griffin centred on revamping the Northbridge elements to improve the processor's energy efficiency.

So we have the old K8 core with HT 3.0 and a revamped NB ?

And this will "own" Penryn ?:ROTF:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/05/18/amd_peeks_into_griffin/

[Face]

AMD "Puma" and Griffin Mobile Platform Details Unveiled:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2992

http://www.tgdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32095

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2007/05/18/amd_mobile_griffin_and_puma/1

http://www.dailytech.com/AMD+Puma+Mobile+Platform+Details+Unveiled/article7340.htm

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=MP0BSKTHIAWCOQSNDLSCK HA?articleID=199601512

Lots of good info.

* AMD to introduce "Hyperflash" to compete with Intel's "Turbo Memory”.

* AMD will still not offer its own wireless chipset. Wimax is unlikely to become a feature of Puma.

* Truly Independent Power Planes as in Barcelona.

* Goes head-to-head with "Montevina".

Things should get really interesting with Fusion.

[gOJDO]

Is it ?



So we have the old K8 core with HT 3.0 and a revamped NB ?

And this will "own" Penryn ?:ROTF:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/05/18/amd_peeks_into_griffin/

It won't compete against Penryn, but against Nehaleem.

looks like Mobile Ownage :D

I agree.

[terrace215]

looks like Mobile Ownage :D

Yes, it does. By Intel.

A warmed-over K8 core ("transistor-for-transistor the same as Turion X2") with a better IMC/Northbridge???

In mid 2008??!?!

What a joke. Why are they even talking about this now? Are they crazy?

[red]

What's wrong with K10 and the 45nm supposedly ready in H208?

[savantu]

What's wrong with K10 and the 45nm supposedly ready in H208?

Reading comprehension problems ?

Griffin is a low power version of the current 65nm Turion X2.What isn't wrong with it CPU-wise in mid 08 ?

[red]

What is wrong with 45nm and K10, supposedly mature, at least by 2008, that they're going to release essentially a 65nm K8 Turion X2 with better northbridge?

[EniGmA1987]

Why not release a better northbridge? If people want absolute performance in a computer then they should get a desktop. This is about optimizing laptops to get far more battery life, not making them desktop replacements.

[red]

I don't think I said anything against a better northbridge. Just wondering why AMD claims K10 to be using same power yet more performance and not use it on mobile, or why they won't use 45nm if it should launch around Puma.

[nemrod]

Is it suppose to remplace ulv?
http://www.clubic.com/actualite-73846-puma-venir-centrino-intel-amd.html
http://img.clubic.com/photo/015E000000502431.jpg

for the switch, they re is already a switch on some sony notebook (stamina)
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/notebooks/0,1000000334,39286878,00.htm

[freeloader]

Roadmap indicates H2 of 2008.

Which means H2 of 09 if AMD sticks to it's track record as of lately.

[Helmore]

for the switch, they re is already a switch on some sony notebook (stamina)
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/notebooks/0,1000000334,39286878,00.htm

AMD is talking about automatic switching in such a way that you do not have to reboot your system to switch between graphics chipset. With those sony notebooks, you will have to turn off the device before you can turn the switch and then you have to restart. This will not be necessary with AMD's PowerXpress system as it will switch automatic when you, for example, put the system on AC power. You of course can always set the graphics provider manually, but that will be quite a strain on the batteries.

[perkam]

AMD is a nonentity in the mobile market at the moment. Another market for them to tap into if they can. I'd love to see you prove that.

Perkam

[nemrod]

AMD is talking about automatic switching in such a way that you do not have to reboot your system to switch between graphics chipset. With those sony notebooks, you will have to turn off the device before you can turn the switch and then you have to restart. This will not be necessary with AMD's PowerXpress system as it will switch automatic when you, for example, put the system on AC power. You of course can always set the graphics provider manually, but that will be quite a strain on the batteries.

You're right
(need to reboot to take into account the change)