AMD's Bobcat Snarls at Atom: Low-Power x86 Core Gives AMD Teeth in Mobile-PC Fight

摘要

For two years, Intel's Atom processors have utterly dominated the low-power x86 market, winning designs in the vast majority of netbooks while gaining market share in other segments as well. Atom has almost totally eclipsed Via Technologies' Centaur processors, which pioneered the concept of a smaller and simpler x86. Meanwhile, AMD has been virtually AWOL. Athlon Neo runs much hotter than Atom, and AMD's other x86 processors are optimized for high performance in servers, desktops, and mainstream notebooks.