OK, we all know AMD is late, late, late in quad-core mobile processors, but according to X-bit labs, AMD plans to offer a wide array of Phenom II mobile processors in May and, if you look at the models, you will notice that the AMD Phenom II P920 has 4 cores running at 1.6 GHz with a TDP of only 25 W, while the Phenom II N930 has 4 cores running at 2 GHz and a TDP of 35 W. This is very low for quad-cores, because the slowest quad-cores from Intel, the Core 2 Quad Q9000 at 2 GHz and Core i7-720QM at 1.6 GHz, have both a TDP of 45 W, and low-end Core 2 Duos such as the T6600 have a TDP of 35 W (mainstream Duos are more power efficient and have a TDP of 25 W). TDP measures the heat produced when the processor runs at full speed, so a low TDP indicates that the processor uses less power and produces less heat.
Maybe clockspeeds are a bit low, but quad-core processors that draw so little power are great news for laptop users. I hope performance is good enough and that the low TDP translates in longer battery life.
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