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    News - AMD to pension off Geode low-power CPU: competition for Atom diminishes

    AMD won't update its Geode LX line of lower-power CPUs, but how will it fight against Atom?
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    Re: News - AMD to pension off Geode low-power CPU: competition for Atom diminishes

    Geode's not even in the same league as Atom really - anything which Via C7 makes look sluggish is only useful for embedded apps

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    Re: News - AMD to pension off Geode low-power CPU: competition for Atom diminishes

    I'm guessing that Atom is more of a high-volume but low-profit per unit chip, something that AMD really doesn't need to start trying to fight Intel over. Intel has always had much more manufacturing volume and can afford to produce Atom-like chips whilst AMD needs to be trying to squeak out as much profit per silicon wafer as possible, something that's more likely with Phenom II than it is with Geode.

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