Ooh… AMD finally getting in the game!

And more information! You have to search for the Sempron 200u.

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS7818796…

“Revised, Aug. 25] — While Intel's Developer Forum hogged the limelight last week, AMD was shyly preparing to ship its own competitors to Intel's Atom. The AMD Sempron 200U and 210U will sample next month on a 3.5-inch SBC (single board computer), says Taiwanese manufacturer Ibase.

Despite its longtime association with power-sipping, low-cost x86 and MIPS-based CPUs, AMD has remained publicly aloof from the “nettop” and netbook fray. However, the blogosphere has been alive for several months with rumors of an AMD processor, reportedly code-named “Bobcat” and also referred to as the “K8 BGA” or Sempron BGA. The CPU was rumored to use AMD's Sempron core, clocked down to 1.0GHz or 1.5GHz, and offered in a 27mm x 27mm BGA (ball grid array) package for installation in low-cost devices.

As it turns out, the rumors were true — but confirmation comes not from AMD, but from Ibase. The Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer says it has employed the 1.0GHz Sempron 200U and 1.5GHz Sempron 210U on a new SBC, the IB885, which will sample in the next month, and be available in quantity in October.”

Aha! From AMD's website! An 8 Watt Sempron processor running at 1000 MHz designed for “ultrathin notebooks”. Sounds like the processor that Tom's Hardware tested a year ago. Why the heck has AMD waited so long to get in the game?!

Processor AMD Sempron™ Processor for Ultrathin Notebooks
Model 200U
OPN Tray SMF200UOAX3DV
OPN PIB n/a
Operating Mode 32 Bit Yes
Operating Mode 64 Bit Yes
Frequency (MHz) 1000
System Bus Speed (MHz) 1600
Wattage 8 W
L2 Cache Size 256
Process Technology 65nm SOI
Package/Infrastructure Socket ASB1

I remembered an older Tom's Hardware article that compared the Atom to an underclocked Athlon 64 “2000+” running at 1000 MHz. I dug it up again. The AMD processor had 8 watts TDP, which is pretty low, but higher than Atom. Maybe that's what AMD is putting out there as the Athlon 1110?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Athlon-Atom…

“we received a low-power Athlon 64 2000+ processor for Socket AM2 some months ago, and this processor is rated at a TDP of only 8 W. Although this is not a commercial product (yet), it does a good job of showing what a low-power version of the device would offer for mainstream PC applications.”

I can't find anything about this new AMD processor. What are the specs? Is it just an underclocked Athlon 64? Will it outperform the atom? How much power does it use?