Intel ATOM vs AMD Bobcat!! The processor wars

I had once posted about the Browsers wars.. the classic tug-o-war between IE and FireFox and as they say - history repeats itself, this time its the "Low-Wattage-Processors wars". Not much after Intel's ATOM hit the commercial market, rival AMD has burst the Bobcat bubble.

AMD's Bobcat is their answer to Intel ATOM and is designed for low power consumption functionality. These are targeting the Mobile Internet Device segment in the market. AMD Bobcat will be formally announced in November later this year. Some rumored technical specs say that the proccy will run at ~1Ghz with 128KB L1 cache and 256KB L2 cache.

Comparing both ATOM and Bobcat, the power consumption of Bobcat is likely to be around 8 watts - about three times more than that of ATOM, but Intel's design lays the extra burden of the NorthBridge running at 6 Watts, so the total touches almost the same figure in both architectures.
AMD's solution includes an integrated NorthBridge. The end point is that the commercial IMD segment is going to grow in leaps and bounds now and we can expect many price drops in the near future..