ALi MAGiK 1: The Athlon gets a second DDR platform
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 29, 2000 3:07 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
ALi takes their MAGiK on the road
Along
with the MAGiK 1, ALi has released the MobileMAGiK 1 which uses the same M1647
Northbridge as its desktop counterpart but is designed for use with the M1535+
Southbridge. The M1535+ is simply the mobile counterpart to the M1535D+, their
feature sets are identical.
Obviously this announcement is in anticipation of the mobile Palomino and Morgan cores we talked about in our AMD Roadmap article, however currently ALi is simply demonstrating the chipset used on desktop sized motherboards with mobile components and, of course, desktop CPUs.
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One of the benefits of DDR support in a mobile platform is lower power consumption, since DDR SDRAM operates at a lower voltage than regular SDRAM (2.5v vs 3.3v). And since DDR SDRAM will operate at the same clock frequency (100MHz DDR still operates at 100MHz) but at a lower voltage, the power savings should be fairly noticeable. However the key power drainers in a notebook will still be the screen and the hard drive, so don’t expect DDR SDRAM to help too much. Unlike most other performance enhancements though, DDR SDRAM in a mobile platform doesn’t have an adverse affect on battery life because of the points we just mentioned.
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