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winner over whom? Certainly not over Turion
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Depends on the app. If the goal is to have smaller, lighter battery,
heatsink, etc. while providing decent battery life, one must admit
that PM and its derivatives have the edge. Besides I have not seen a
single preview of dual core Turion yet. Probably just by means of
binning AMD can get some A64X2 cores running at lower voltages, and
package these as A64X2 Mobile, or even TurionX2 (or whatever name they
decide on). Any one of these would run circles around Yonah in every
benchmark except one - power usage. In this department AMD will
probably have a contender only at 65nm. Until that AMD will have an
edge in mainstream and especially desktop replacement notebooks while
Intel will dominate ultra-mobility niche and corporate market (this
one more on marketing than technical merits).
 
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Will the new sse/sse2 stuff they are doing require compiler updates
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What applications do you have that you could recompile? Assuming that
new features would benefit the application?
 
short answer everything, im a gentoo user so every single app on my system
is compiled with apropriate flags.

i was more wondering whether gcc or similar compilers {1} would need to
introduce a new arch like the pentiumm addon which we had to wait and go
pentium3 -sse2 till it was done or are the changes done internaly within
the cpu and it can be a case on compiling with pentiumm -sse3.

{1} havent tried icc in a while because version 8 had probs with the way
gentoo was setup
 
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