The newest kids on the street from AMD have arrived and promptly embedded themselves in the Atom’s market.  They use a ball grid array design which gives away the fact that they are designed to be embedded.  The 18W power draw hints at the small size of the products you are likely to see powered by the Turion Neo X2 L625 and Athlon Neo X2 L325 and the 3W demanded by the matching M690T and M690E chipsets back that hint up.  They will both support dual channel ECC-enabled U-DIMM DDR2-667, sport 64KB L1 cache and 512KB L2 cache and have one 16-bit link supporting up to 800MHzHypertransport. 

You can read the AMD press release here, and grab even more information from Slashdot.  The one thing you won’t find are the clock speeds.

“AMD has released two new low power processors for embedded apps. With a power of 18W and a chipset with 3W of average consumption it seems we may have some interesting competition with Intel’s Atom.”

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