Sounds interesting, if a bit vague (on Hester's part). I wonder if the TDP for these chips will dip lower than the 25W of the older MT Turions, which has not been surpassed by any of AMD's new chips yet. I'd expect 65nm to be able to do that, or at least match that rating.

One way the new mobile processor will differ from AMD's forthcoming desktop and server parts will be its use of the current K8 execution core, not the new one in development.

Well, I guess that means AMD will have to up the GHz to compete with Core 2 Duo performance-wise, then. Of course, that'll let their power consumption sky rocket, too, so it'll be interesting to see where they end up.

Hope they'll show a better effort next time.

I'm guessing that this would be a K8L derivative on the µarch part, with transistorchoices towards low leakage and the mentioned improvements to power- and clockdistribution schemes. Could turn out to be interesting really.

"AMD intends to push into ever lower power envelopes with its mobile processors going forward, because it sees smaller mobile devices becoming increasingly important over time."

Oh yeah, convergence, Baby! Should I make that with a capital C? Pretty soon that handheld device will be gripped tight in my hand while I puke into the toilet after so many margaritas at the nightclub. :/