AMD's Zacate E-350 Fusion Processor Benchmarked, Beats Intel Atom/NVIDIA Ion 2

Re:AMD's Zacate E-350 Fusion Processor Benchmarked, Beats In... by MojoKid on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @08:30AM (#1909975)

The rumor on the street is that Apple is eyeballing these chips for next gen Macbooks.

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Re:AMD's Zacate E-350 Fusion Processor Benchmarked, Beats In... by pmjordan on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @08:37AM (#1909990)

Surely not these but the next batch of Fusion chips with "grown-up" CPU parts (Phenom/Athlon). Even the 11" Macbook Air's 1.4GHz Core2Duo ULV blows all of these chips out of the water.

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Re:AMD's Zacate E-350 Fusion Processor Benchmarked, Beats In... by MojoKid on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @09:51AM (#1910186)

True, maybe not Macbooks with Zacate, unless Apple wants something cheaper and lighter. And these parts aren't that far off from CULV Core 2 chips actually.

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Re:AMD's Zacate E-350 Fusion Processor Benchmarked, Beats In... by pmjordan on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @06:03PM (#1912105)

I think their version of cheaper and lighter will be the next step up from the A4, i.e. something ARM-based for their iOS devices. By avoiding the Core iX chips in the 11"/13" devices in favour of a faster GPU they've already demonstrated they're not keen to sacrifice computing power below a certain level.

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