AMD's Next-Generation Mobile Architecture Revealed: Griffin
 

*Source: Anandtech (http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2992)*
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Several years ago Intel discovered surprisingly enough that its NetBurst architecture was not very good for the mobile space. As wonderful as the idea of battery powered space heaters was, Intel quickly discovered that to build the perfect mobile platform you had to start from scratch and design a CPU that was built for the mobile space. By doing so Intel could make tradeoffs that it wouldn't normally make, performance for power reduction, many of which we diagrammed in our first Centrino articles.

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