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OK, let's put it this way:

> No system integrator wants to try and sell a 1GHz product to the public.

AMD has pushed lots of low power parts for mobile, for integrated systems, etc. If AMD had the resources to produce a low power, slower clocked chip, why was Turion such a dog? AMD hasn't actually done very well in the mobile space historically, when they could have produced low-power Ultrabook-like designs. Hell, they could've made something like the new Chromebook and had no fans. Either there's a severe lack of vision, or this is actually much more difficult to implement with the x86 instruction set than you're lettingon.

> But people use it as a proxy for performance, so the ads keep including it.

People generally don't care about clock speeds at this point, and I don't know if they ever really did. I worked retail about 6 years ago, and customers had no clue about clock speeds. Frankly, they were mostly worried about hard drives and screen size.

> No one wants to convince retailer marketers that a system clocked at half the speed of their competitors is actually just as fast.

Retail is the tip of the iceberg. HPC is a big market, commodity servers are a huge market. Halving your power consumption in those areas would be massive, and would give AMD a real cash injection. But there's no silver bullet there. You may be slightly right, but you're massively overstating the benefits compared to the costs of implementing it.




> If AMD had the resources to produce a low power, slower clocked chip, why was Turion such a dog?

Because not even Intel can maintain two different architectures at once and stay competitive. AMD would surely go bankrupt before they could complete a major architecture re-design.




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