Whats the point of that, singelcores are dead, even for notebooks (beside for UMPCs, but even there dualcores take over)?
They need a chip that is dirt cheap and consumes next to nothing, and perform a bit better then atom -> zing amd would own the whole sub 400€ market.
Just look at the success of atom. Even if you strip down phenom 2 off everything it wont come close the the power consumption of atom.
Amd already had massmarket SoC way befor intel (remeber cyrix? ), but they dumped it... if they would have forced the development based on MediaGX core they would have a very competentive product against Atom.
As for a competition against the centrieno platform, that depends how much impact the cache strip has on phenom phenoms performance.
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