AMD: New Chips Consume Half the Power of Core 2 Du

frederickroyceperez writes: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2068252 ,00.asp -AMD announced its entry into the 65-nm manufacturing generation Tuesday with a new line of 65-watt "energy-efficient" processors that the company claimed already consumes just under 50 percent less power than the Intel Core 2 Duo — From what I could understand of the article the main thrust of AMD marketing was that although the power consumption was much higher in comparison with Intel when opened up , the idle speeds in quotidian use brought a favorable power usage comparatively . So average use over a day with comparable AMD chips vs Intel chips appears to favour AMD .