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As part of its ongoing rivalry with Intel, AMD will call its new chip, coming out next week, the Athlon 4, according to sources. Presumably, the name change comes as a way to better market the chip against Intel's Pentium 4.

The naming scheme will also let AMD claim a partial marketing victory in that its No. 4 chip will appear in notebooks in May. Intel won't squeeze a Pentium 4 into notebooks until the first half of 2002.


Code-named Palomino, the Athlon 4 will contain a number of improvements. Most importantly, the chip will consume far less power than current Athlon chips, according to AMD.

By ratcheting down the power consumption, AMD will be able to slip the chip into notebooks. The chip will appear in notebooks first, then servers and desktops.


這麼看來最快下個星期AMD就會發表筆記型電腦用的Athlon 4(Palomino)囉!