Over the past few days this slide has been floating to various hardware websites with no specific origin to the slide leak, but it seems to indicate that AMD may be gearing up for a battle against Intel in the UMPC and MID marketplace, meaning that future eee PC's and netbooks might see some variety down the road.

Right now we're seeing the Intel Atom processor come in with a 2.5w rating for Silverthorne and a 4w - 8w rating for Diamondville processors, the catch here is that we're only seeing the CPU power consumption itself and not the chipset for the CPU. When taking into account the 945 chipset the power rating changes quite a bit with the chipset consuming 22w of power. This changes the overall consumption for Silverthorne to around 24.5w and the Diamondville to around 26-30w consumed right now.

What the slide is apparently telling us is that this arrangement will feature the cpu + memory controller + the northbridge all in a total power consumption level of around 8W TDP, the only thing that seems to be missing in that case is the GPU but given the work of AMD into low power north bridge features they might just be excluding that, even if not it seems they still have quite a leg up on the Atom + 945 combo in market right now for power consumption if they had to include a seperate gpu to the mix.

This could be some interesting news though for the consumer since if AMD is bringing a fight to Intel in the low power market then it means we'll see a war in prices and an overall benefit to battery life which already at this stage is already going to see a huge boost with such low power usage. One can hope that AMD does step it up though with higher frequencies if they do plan to battle in the UMPC market since the Atom is rumored to be on the path to 2.2GHz in dual core format and presently already has a 1.6GHz chip on the market.

One can really only hope that this ends up appearing on an upcoming roadmap from the company as it seems that it would bring good things to those pondering a step into the UMPC market and frankly I'd love to be able to not worry about my battery life at all while working on things..