I don't know where you guys are getting Atom is getting paired with a power hungry chipset when ars is saying the chipset is only consuming 0.1w more than atom itself for a total of 4.5w (2.2 + 2.3).

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080619-amd-may-be-planning-i...

Not everything has to be a killer. If it is able to compete that is good enough.

#5, #9...you are right, sirs.

The custom chipset is the one with the super-low power consumption, not the 945. My error.

Maybe the door's open more than a crack for AMD. How did Intel goof in not getting this Atom platform released together?

#4...from what I read elsewhere, the AMD part would be 8 watts for the processor all by its lonesome...Atom + chipset is 6.5.

AMD could try to position itself between the 'netbooks' and notebooks for yet another price/performance/portability/power consumption point.

I love alliteration.

Yeah, I don't see how an Atom-killer can have 4x the power consumption. It's more competitive with Intel's other ULV chips, but it still burns more power than some of those.

These netbooks already get too hot as it is. When the keyboard is the heatsink, you don't want more heat.

AMD is arriving late to the party.

Hmm. They'd be all the much better off if it were 55-45nm node, and dual-core. But I guess you gotta work with what you got, esp. if time is short.