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XP blacks out AMD power management

...of laptops based on Athlon 4 and Duron mobile chips to use PowerNow! technology, which extends battery life by reducing processor power when it isn... Read more

13 November, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Intel debuts new mobile chips

...in a statement. Industry analysts say the emergence of SpeedStep, AMD's PowerNow and Transmeta's upcoming line of low-power notebook chips are part... Read more

25 September, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Smaller is better, says AMD chief

Why Hector de J. Ruiz thinks it's better to be small and agile than big and directionally challenged Read more

27 June, 2000 by John G.Spooner

AMD, Toshiba to make notebooks cool, Part II

Once PowerNow! is up and running, it will extend notebook battery life by a... Read more

19 April, 2000 by John Spooner

AMD, Toshiba to make notebooks cool

...to higher clock speeds, but still maintain decent battery life. SpeedStep and PowerNow! Intel was the first to offer this technology with its SpeedStep technology... Read more

19 April, 2000 by John G.Spooner

New notebooks save power

...voltage on its forthcoming K6-2+ and K6-III+ notebook chips. Called PowerNow, the technology would benefit a portable computer user by granting an extra... Read more

17 March, 2000 by John G.Spooner

Acer Aspire 1502LMi

The Athlon 64-based Aspire 1502LMi performs very well as a 32-bit Windows platform, and is ready for the new world of 64-bit computing, when it finally dawns. Read more

15 June, 2004 by Charles McLellan
AMD <endeca_term>powernow</endeca_term> Version 5.1.2600.28.zip 5.1.2600.1152

AMD powernow Version 5.1.2600.28.zip 5.1.2600.1152

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17 December, 2002

AMD revs up Athlon 4 and Duron chips

...cost version of the Athlon 4's core -- called the Palomino -- with PowerNow power management added along with a prefetch level 2 cache. Both cores... Read more

21 August, 2001 by John G.Spooner

AMD to curb quad-core power usage

...ISSCC) in San Francisco, will sport a new version of AMD's PowerNow technology that will let all four cores simultaneously operate at different speeds... Read more

12 February, 2007 by Michael Kanellos

AMD details Opteron upgrade plans

...provides a better balance of processing oomph and power consumption. AMD's PowerNow technology, which cuts processor speeds when computing demand is low, also gets... Read more

7 March, 2006 by Stephen Shankland

Buyers turn up the heat on server makers

Buyers are getting hot under the collar over rising temperatures in the datacentre, and server makers are increasingly deflecting the heat onto Intel Read more

11 May, 2005 by Matt Loney

Linspire launches 'mass-market' desktop

...improved laptop support, with compatibility for Intel's Centrino and AMD's PowerNow offerings and a Wi-Fi Access Point Locater. Linspire hit the news... Read more

17 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

AMD upgrades Opterons

...sped up from 800MHz to 1GHz. Just as important, the chips contain PowerNow with Optimised Power Management, which lets the operating system slow the processor... Read more

14 February, 2005 by Michael Kanellos

AMD cool Opterons to heat up battle with Intel

...its notebook processors to its Opteron processors for servers. The technology, called PowerNow with Optimised Power Management, lets the operating system slow the processor's... Read more

6 December, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

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