40%. The strained silicon technology used for the Prescott also makes its "mobile" debut in the Dothan. This technology entails lightly stretching the lattice of silicon crystals in the area under the transistor gate, resulting in higher mobility of the electrons,...

in May 2000. The business notebooks in the `thin and light' class are now available with Intel's latest Centrino mobile technology. But can you really improve a classic like the T series? The answer: a resounding Yes.. Hitherto, Intel has used the following...

Naturally, AMD's LV mobile processor also has PowerNow! energy-saving technology. Intel recently countered this with its "improved" Enhanced SpeedStep technology. Operating Points LV Mobile AMD Athlon-XP-M 1700+ Intel Pentium-M 1600 MHz 1466 MHz/ 1.250...

In normal operation, a Pentium 4-M will never be run in this grey zone: Intel speaks of Average Power in this context. "This supplies the CPU's average power consumption when running typical office applications," is Intel's official wording. Active Power refers...

in desktops has (slightly) died down, AMD brings the Athlon64 to notebook market. THG got to test the Mobile Athlon64 3000+ and saw how it operates in a notebook platform. We also gauged its relative performance against Intel's mobile Pentium offerings.. A...

as the metallic grid for the transistors and storage capacitors. Then a thin layer of silicon oxide is deposited for the gate and storage-capacitor dielectric. A deposit of amorphous silicon is used to create a channel for the transistor. Two zones are then...

area of 83.6 mm2. Still, one shouldn't overlook that more than 90 percent of Dothan's transistors went into its L2 cache alone. Had Intel's Yonah or the Pentium D 800 desktop models been constructed using 90 nm technology, not only would the 2 MB L2 cache have...

Technology Intel Pentium M 21 - 27 W SpeedStep Intel Pentium M LV 10 - 12 W Speed-Step Intel Pentium M ULV 5 - 7 W SpeedStep Intel Celeron M 21 - 24.5 W NA AMD Turion 64 22 - 35 W PowerNow AMD Sempron 25 - 62 W PowerNow Overview of maximum power...

called leakage. A technique to combat this leakage is to apply a bias voltage to the transistor, which effectively increases the transistor's threshold voltage. This technique of applying extra voltage is called back bias; the greater the voltage, the less...