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Compaq Armada 100S review
Reviews The Armada 100S is built around AMD's K6-2+ PowerNow! AMD's PowerNow! Battery life with PowerNow! Battery life is acceptable, and AMD's PowerNow! However, the 533MHz K6-2+ delivers enough CPU muscle if all you want to do is run mainstream...
[October 17, 2000, 0:00]
AMD, Toshiba to make notebooks cool, Part II
News Once PowerNow! A user can however change the default settings with a utility included with PowerNow! PowerNow! When a notebook user pulls the power plug out of the wall, the PowerNow! While AMD's PowerNow!
[April 19, 2000, 8:42]
New notebooks save power
News PowerNow does so by lowering clock speed and reducing the voltage of the processor. Called PowerNow, the technology would benefit a portable computer user by granting an extra 30 to 50 percent of battery life, depending on how the technology is...
[March 17, 2000, 8:58]
XP blacks out AMD power management
News The fix allows users of laptops based on Athlon 4 and Duron mobile chips to use PowerNow! The version of XP available on retail shelves doesn't include a driver -- amdk7.sys -- needed for PowerNow! A statement on Microsoft's support Web site reads...
[November 13, 2001, 13:35]
AMD upgrades Opterons
News Just as important, the chips contain PowerNow with Optimised Power Management, which lets the operating system slow the processor's clock speed and consequently reduce power consumption, said Ben Williams, vice-president of AMD's server...
[February 14, 2005, 8:15]
AMD cool Opterons to heat up battle with Intel
News The technology, called PowerNow with Optimised Power Management, lets the operating system slow the processor's clock speed and consequently reduce power consumption by as much as 80 percent, said Ben Williams, vice president of AMD's server...
[December 6, 2004, 7:15]
AMD, Toshiba to make notebooks cool
News SpeedStep and PowerNow! Following the same frequency and voltage-reduction formula, AMD said it will extend battery life of notebooks between 30 percent and 50 percent with a forthcoming new feature, called PowerNow!
[April 19, 2000, 8:20]
AMD revs up Athlon 4 and Duron chips
News Morgan is essentially a lower-cost version of the Athlon 4's core -- called the Palomino -- with PowerNow power management added along with a prefetch level 2 cache. PowerNow serves to increase notebook battery life by lowering the clock speed and...
[August 21, 2001, 9:09]
AMD Athlon 64: the benchmarks
Talkback I'm very happy with the performance of the 2800+ XP-M with PowerNow! Obviously it'll have PowerNow! Oh well, did this come as a bit of a surprise to me? No way! I always knew that AMD processors were superior to Intel ones - be it the number of...
[February 18, 2004, 13:34]
Benchmarks: Intel's 64-bit Pentium 4 660
Talkback The power management technology is not called Cool 'n' Quiet, but PowerNow. Cool 'n' Quiet is the name given for the combined effect of a K8-PowerNow-compliant CPU, compliant motherboard and thermistor-regulated CPU fan.
[March 5, 2005, 0:44]
AMD lines up backers for mobile chip
News Palomino also adds support for AMD's PowerNow technology. PowerNow allows a processor to reduce voltage and clock speed to further reduce power consumption while on battery power. PowerNow also offers variability, allowing multiple voltage and...
[January 26, 2001, 8:44]
Sony VAIO PCG-FX301 review
Reviews The FX301 is also one of the first notebooks to feature AMD's new 800MHz Mobile Duron processor, distinguished from the desktop version of the CPU by the inclusion of PowerNow! This is very apparent in the system's rundown time in PowerNow!
[September 14, 2001, 0:00]
AMD to curb quad-core power usage
News The processor, which AMD will discuss at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (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...
[February 12, 2007, 9:29]
AMD ratchets up mobile chip speeds
News The Durons include AMD's PowerNow technology, which allows the chips to scale down in clock frequency and voltage to decrease power consumption and extend battery life. Advanced Micro Devices is offering more oomph for low-priced notebooks with two...
[January 31, 2002, 6:31]
AMD speeds notebooks
News The mobile Athlon 4 includes 384KB of on-chip memory cache, including 128KB of level-one cache on the processor die, as well as 3DNow multimedia instructions and PowerNow power management. AMD has ramped up its mobile processor line, launching a...
[November 12, 2001, 14:50]
Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE review
Reviews Intel with SpeedStep and AMD with PowerNow! Notebook users want many of the benefits of desktop PCs, such as fast processors, high-capacity hard disks, large screens and so on. But they also require size and weight to be minimised and battery life...
[October 30, 2000, 23:00]
Linspire launches 'mass-market' desktop
News Other features in Linspire Five-0 include improved laptop support, with compatibility for Intel's Centrino and AMD's PowerNow offerings and a Wi-Fi Access Point Locater. Linux provider Linspire on Wednesday launched version five of its Linux...
[March 17, 2005, 14:00]
Intel debuts new mobile chips
News Industry analysts say the emergence of SpeedStep, AMD's PowerNow and Transmeta's upcoming line of low-power notebook chips are part of a new market segment for chip and PC makers. Intel Monday announced several new mobile chips using SpeedStep...
[September 25, 2000, 12:55]
2000 Roundup: Chips broke 1GHz, but market yawned
News AMD followed suit with PowerNow. 2000 was the year PC chips broke the 1GHz barrier, though to judge by the declining growth rate for PCs in the US, this was no great revolution. The year kicked off with breakthroughs in chip research and the launch...
[December 26, 2000, 6:10]
Intel-AMD: It's a post-gigahertz hangover
News Like exhausted fighters, AMD and Intel are taking a breather from their breakneck chip battle AMD may discuss plans to push past 1GHz at next week's PC Expo in New York, although the company's focus is expected to be on notebook processors with...
[June 26, 2000, 16:04]
