The quieter, cooler chips are specifically targeted at small form factor designs such as lounge room-based Home Theatre PCs. They're expected to be immediately available in the channel and from OEMs including Alienware, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Systemax and Voodoo.

The announcement follows AMD's recent release of dual-core Opteron server processors which also offered low-watt options. A recent study cited by AMD found US data centers annually consume the output of five 1000 megawatt power plants.{moscomment}