Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday launched a line of computer processors that use less power, saying its adoption of new manufacturing techniques will help it compete with rival Intel Corp.
The development helps AMD close a manufacturing gap with Intel, which has been using the advanced chipmaking process for more than a year. Each new generation of chipmaking tools shrinks circuitry further, making chips run faster and use less energy. It also boosts profits by letting chipmakers produce more chips from a single slice of silicon.
AMD is essentially taking an existing chip design, the Athlon 64 FX for desktop computers, and shrinking it. The processors are priced from $169 to $301 depending on speed and use about 30 percent less energy than the earlier versions.
It will soon roll out lower power chips for laptops and the server computers that run business networks, as well as chips that deliver a mix of lower power and faster performance, Kepler told Reuters in an interview.
"We are leading with energy-efficient versions and taking benefits of the technology entirely in power because that's what our customers want -- lower power," said Nick Kepler, AMD's vice president of logic technology development.
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The development helps AMD close a manufacturing gap with Intel, which has been using the advanced chipmaking process for more than a year. Each new generation of chipmaking tools shrinks circuitry further, making chips run faster and use less energy. It also boosts profits by letting chipmakers produce more chips from a single slice of silicon.
AMD is essentially taking an existing chip design, the Athlon 64 FX for desktop computers, and shrinking it. The processors are priced from $169 to $301 depending on speed and use about 30 percent less energy than the earlier versions.
It will soon roll out lower power chips for laptops and the server computers that run business networks, as well as chips that deliver a mix of lower power and faster performance, Kepler told Reuters in an interview.
"We are leading with energy-efficient versions and taking benefits of the technology entirely in power because that's what our customers want -- lower power," said Nick Kepler, AMD's vice president of logic technology development.
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