In early 2000, chip designer Transmeta Corporation unveiled its innovative Crusoe family of x86-compatible processors aimed specifically at the mobile computing arena and designed with the objective of maximizing the battery life of mobile … [Read more...]
Speedstep – Intel’s mobile CPU dynamic power management architecture
Just a few weeks after its launch of the Dixon, Intel demonstrated a revolutionary new mobile processor technology that was expected to close the performance gap between mobile PCs and their historically higher performance desktop counterparts. The demonstration was of a dual-mode mobile … [Read more...]
Intel Mobile Pentium III and Tualatin Pentium III-M Guide
The October 1999 announcement of a range of 0.18-micron Pentium III processors included the launch of the first mobile Pentium IIIs. The new processors - available at speeds of 400MHz, 450MHz and 500MHz and featuring a 100MHz system bus - … [Read more...]
AMD Mobile K6 CPU Technology Guide
Just as the desktop version of its K6-2 processor with 3DNow! technology stole a march on Intel by reaching the market well before its Pentium III was able to offer similar 3D capability via its Katmai New Instructions, AMD's Mobile K6-2 … [Read more...]
Guide to Intel’s Mobile Celeron CPU
Co-incident with the launch of Dixon, Intel also introduced its first Mobile Celeron CPUs, at clock speeds of 266MHz and 300MHz. Technically, these CPUs were distinguished from the Dixon range only by the fact that they had 128KB of on-die … [Read more...]
Illustrated guide to Cyrix’s MediaGXi technology
The merging of graphics, audio, memory control and the PCI interface onto the microprocessor itself, made Cyrix's revolutionary MediaGX architecture a natural for use with notebook PCs, delivering easy-to-use multimedia technology at an … [Read more...]
Intel Mobile Pentium II technology guide
The natural progression of the low-power Deschutes family of Pentium II processors to the portable PC market took place with the launch of the Mobile Pentium II range in April 1998. The new processor, and its companion Mobile 440BX chipset, … [Read more...]
Illustrated Intel Pentium Tillamook CPU technology guide
Conspicuous by its absence from Intel's launch of MMX at the beginning of 1997 was a 200MHz version of the Pentium MMX for notebooks. This omission was addressed before the year was out, however, with the announcement of its latest mobile … [Read more...]
Mobile Intel Pentium MMX technology guide
In January 1997 the first mobile Pentiums with MMX technology appeared, clocked at 150MHz and 166MHz. Initially these were built on Intel's enhanced 0.35-micron CMOS process technology with the processor's input and output pins operating at 3.3 volts … [Read more...]