Intel will announce a couple of new Z-series chips for MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices). Already rumored, the 45nm Atom Z550 and Z515 are clocked at 2 and 1.2 GHz respectively, and feature a 533 MHz FSB and 512kB of cache. The Z515 also have the Burst Performance Technology which enables it to automatically adjusts its working frequency depending on computing needs.
Intel has marked the Atom's first anniversary with the launch of two new parts, the Z550 and Z515.
The Z515 runs at up to 1.2GHz and supports Burst Performance Technology, which allows it to adjust the frequency automatically depending on performance demands. It supports US15W and UL11L chipsets and it will primarily be used in MIDs.
The Z550 runs at 2.0GHz, but still stays withing the 3W power envelope. We are not sure if the Z550 will find its place in new products any time soon. When it comes to Atoms, there is usually a hefty price premium to pay for a slightly higher clock, and for example, a 1.8GHz model costs twice as much as the 1.6GHz we see all over the place.
Both chips have a 2.4W TDP, they idle at 0.22W, have 512KB of L2 cache and run on a 533MHz FSB.
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Intel intros specialized Atom for cars and other devices, outsources some Atom manufacturing
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Intel intros specialized Atom for cars and other devices, outsources some Atom manufacturing
Relying on the same 45nm manufacturing process, the new Atom Z5xx series processors expectedly aren't too radically different from the average Atom, with them clocking in between 1.1GHz and 1.6GHz, and boasting a TDP rating of 2.0 or 2.2 watts, although they do have some "embedded lifecycle support" thrown in for good measure. In related news, Intel has also announced that it'll be outsourcing "some" Atom manufacturing to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (or TSMC), which apparently marks the first time that Intel has licensed its CPU core to a foundry.
Relying on the same 45nm manufacturing process, the new Atom Z5xx series processors expectedly aren't too radically different from the average Atom, with them clocking in between 1.1GHz and 1.6GHz, and boasting a TDP rating of 2.0 or 2.2 watts, although they do have some "embedded lifecycle support" thrown in for good measure. In related news, Intel has also announced that it'll be outsourcing "some" Atom manufacturing to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (or TSMC), which apparently marks the first time that Intel has licensed its CPU core to a foundry.
Atom 330 is benchmarked
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Atom 330 is benchmarked, worse than expected
Atom 330 is benchmarked
Intel's dual-core, 1.6GHz Atom 330 coupled with a 7200 RPM SATA hard drive and 1GB of DDR2 RAM,was benchmarked run-through, and they've got some conflicting details to pass on to you. Overall, the testers found the Atom to be, as expected, faster than the N270, but only by 16 percent. In specific tests, the 330 ran Office 2003 slower than both a 2GHz VIA C7-D and the single-core Atom; PC Pro actually performed the test several times just to be sure it wasn't a glitch... and it wasn't. The 330 performed better running 2D graphics, outpacing the N270 by 41 percent, and it also outperformed its competitors in encoding and multitasking.
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Intel Vows to Ship Enough Atom Processors by Year End.
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Intel Corp. admitted during the most recent conference call with financial analysts that the demand for Intel Atom chips is higher than expectations and that the company could not meet it in the third quarter. The company promised to deliver enough central processing units by the end of the year. Besides, the company revealed that Atom bring higher profits compared to traditional entry-level chips.
“We did not meet demand [for Intel Atom] in Q3 for the product, even though we were up substantially from the second quarter. We are up again substantially in the fourth quarter. Our expectation is that we will meet demand by the end of the year but not the early part of the quarter,” Paul Otellini, chief executive officer at Intel told financial analysts during quarterly conference call.
Still, the head of Intel says that sales of Atom processors were on the high-levels. Moreover, since the CPUs are really cheap to manufacture, even their low prices allow Intel to get profits similar to those it earns on the traditional low-end and mainstream markets.
“The Atom family is off to a very good start, with Atom microprocessor and related chipset revenues approximately $200 million this quarter. Total microprocessor ASP was lower than Q2 but was approximately flat without Atom, reflecting strength in the core business. […] When I look at the product margin, it is a nice [and] healthy product margin and on a dollar basis it is equivalent to what we see in Celeron and on a product margin percent, it is higher. So, if you look at it kind of relative to the low-end of our mainstream stack, it’s generating nice profit characteristics,” said Mr. Otellini.
“We did not meet demand [for Intel Atom] in Q3 for the product, even though we were up substantially from the second quarter. We are up again substantially in the fourth quarter. Our expectation is that we will meet demand by the end of the year but not the early part of the quarter,” Paul Otellini, chief executive officer at Intel told financial analysts during quarterly conference call.
Still, the head of Intel says that sales of Atom processors were on the high-levels. Moreover, since the CPUs are really cheap to manufacture, even their low prices allow Intel to get profits similar to those it earns on the traditional low-end and mainstream markets.
“The Atom family is off to a very good start, with Atom microprocessor and related chipset revenues approximately $200 million this quarter. Total microprocessor ASP was lower than Q2 but was approximately flat without Atom, reflecting strength in the core business. […] When I look at the product margin, it is a nice [and] healthy product margin and on a dollar basis it is equivalent to what we see in Celeron and on a product margin percent, it is higher. So, if you look at it kind of relative to the low-end of our mainstream stack, it’s generating nice profit characteristics,” said Mr. Otellini.
Intel makes the dual-core Atom 330 official
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Intel officially started selling its dual-core Atom 300 processor on Monday, charging $43 for the chip.
The Atom 330 is designed for desktop computer and has two 1.6GHz processor cores and 1M byte of Level 2 cache. The chip also supports 667MHz DDR2 memory. The single-core 1.6GHz Atom 230 chip supports slightly slower 533MHz DDR 2 memory.
Detailed technical specifications of the Atom 330 were not available at the time of writing, but the use of faster memory appears designed to reduce bottlenecks that occur when multiple processor cores compete for access to data that is stored in main memory.
Pricing for the new chip was announced with the release of Intel's latest price list, which quotes a price based on 1,000-unit quantities, a standard measure of chip pricing. The actual price of the chips can be significantly lower for computer makers that buy them in bulk.
The list price of the single-core 1.6GHz Atom 230, intended for low-cost desktop computers, remains unchanged at $29. The price of the single-core Atom processor designed for laptop computers, the 1.6GHz Atom N270, is also unchanged at $44 -- $1 more than the dual-core desktop chip.
Intel hasn't announced plans for a dual-core Atom processor designed for laptops.
The Atom 330 is designed for desktop computer and has two 1.6GHz processor cores and 1M byte of Level 2 cache. The chip also supports 667MHz DDR2 memory. The single-core 1.6GHz Atom 230 chip supports slightly slower 533MHz DDR 2 memory.
Detailed technical specifications of the Atom 330 were not available at the time of writing, but the use of faster memory appears designed to reduce bottlenecks that occur when multiple processor cores compete for access to data that is stored in main memory.
Pricing for the new chip was announced with the release of Intel's latest price list, which quotes a price based on 1,000-unit quantities, a standard measure of chip pricing. The actual price of the chips can be significantly lower for computer makers that buy them in bulk.
The list price of the single-core 1.6GHz Atom 230, intended for low-cost desktop computers, remains unchanged at $29. The price of the single-core Atom processor designed for laptop computers, the 1.6GHz Atom N270, is also unchanged at $44 -- $1 more than the dual-core desktop chip.
Intel hasn't announced plans for a dual-core Atom processor designed for laptops.
Intel unveils dual-core Atom-ready nettop motherboard at IDF
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While notebook dominance already achieved, Intel is shifting some of its focus on the nettop segment and especially for that it has prepared the dual-core Intel Atoms and the new D945GCLF2 motherboard. Coming in a mini-ITX form factor, the D945GCLF2 features an integrated dual-core Atom CPU (likely starting off at 1.6 GHz), the 945GC chipset with integrated graphics (GMA 950) and one memory slot which can house DDR2-533/667 DIMMs of up to 2GB.
In addition to those above, the nettop-prone board has a PCI slot, an IDE connector and two SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, plus integrated 5.1 channel audio and Gigabit Ethernet. The D945GCLF2's comes with four USB 2.0 ports and an S-Video connector. According to Intel ,the D945GCLF2 will be ready, willing and shipping next month.
Sale of Atom exceeds all expectations
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Forget any talk of shortages or competitive pressure from VIA, Intel's Atom processors are thriving amid the recent Netbook and Mobile Internet Device (MID) movement. "Atom is off to a very, very rapid start, far exceeding our expectations when we started the year," CFO Stacy Smith said in an interview Tuesday. "It's the perfect recession product to have in the marketplace."The success of its Atom processor has helped Intel achieve a 25 percent rise in quarterly profit despite a weak global economy, with Smith maintaining an overall revenue forecast in the third quarter between $10.0 and $10.6 billion.
Yields are good too. According to Smith, Intel gets about 2,500 Atom processors per silicon wafer, and while that's not quite as good as on a Core or Xeon chip, it's enough to ensure strong profitability on Atom CPUs. Still, Intel remains cautiously optimistic.
"We'll know kind of in six months how much of this demand (for Atom) is real and how much is customers thinking they're going to win in the market place and double-ordering," Smith said. "It seems to be growing the market rather than cannibalizing existing PC sales."
Will Intel's Atom chips continue to exceed expectations now that Centrino 2 platforms are starting to trickle out?
Intel To Use Atom For Embeddable Systems, Moving Beyond PCs
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Intel has found another use for its tiny, low-power Atom chips—today they've announced intention to move into the system-on-a-chip industry, where they'll compete with ARM, MIPS, Freescale, and IBM among others to provide embeddable systems for things that aren't PCs. Namely cable boxes, manufacturing robots, security hardware, and anything else that needs an all-in-one brain. Initially they'll be using the Pentium M, but the transition to Atom should happen next year. Maybe this is what the "most of us wouldn't use Atom" talk was all about.source:[WSJ]
INTEL ATOM IN APPLE IPHONE
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Intel company intends to systematically enlarge the application sphere of atom processors - their energy consumption level will be lowered so it will be possible to use them in cell phones and other pocket devices . Associate report with the reference to some analysts that the 32 nm atom version will be be able to prescribed in Apple iPhone in 2009-2010. The development of this processor, in the opinion of analysts will grow and the 32 nm version can be shown already in this year . Now smart phone apple iPhone are based on ARM processors from samsung production. According to experts estimations , these processors ensure a lower power consumption in comparison with intel atom. If intel release the Atom processor in the new technical processes, then the energy consumption will be lowered to a competitive level. Simultaneously Intel can lower the price of its processors . Apple in this situation can pass to the use of Atom processors in its smart phones.
The netbook & nettop party (BEd: Or battle) has officially begun so Intel has now started to deliver two new Atom processors which are aimed at the tw
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Computex Intel is to give free rein to overclockers to tweak the settings that can be applied to its 'Eaglelake' chipset, the P45, the chip maker has revealed.
Launched today at Computex in Taipei, the P45 will come with Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (ETU), an app that the company said would bring "overclocking to the mainstream". The tool uses Wizards to allow users to adjust a range of system speed parameters to try to boost performance. It'll also operate automatically.
Intel's P45: system schematic
Officially, the P45 supports frontside bus speeds of up to 1333MHz and DDR 3 memory clocked at up to 1066MHz, but both can be tweaked with ETU.
The chipset also supports PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 to host either a single x16 add-in card or a pair of x8 boards. The accompanying ICH10 or ICH10R southbridge chip adds six PCI slots to the picture, along with six 3Gb/s SATA ports and an eSATA connector, all of which can be disabled by corporations that don't want extra drives added to their PCs.
Likewise, any of the 12 USB ports can be blocked.
The ICH10R variant adds RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 to the user's drive configuration options. Both southbridges support HD audio and sport on-board Gigabit Ethernet. It'll also automatically adjust system cooling fans to reduce noise whenever possible.
Intel also launched the P43 today, which is almost entirely identical to the P45 - it simply lacks the ability to host two graphics cards, limiting the user to a single x16 PCIe slot.© The Register
Intel starts shipping N-series Atom CPUs
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The netbook & nettop party (BEd: Or battle) has officially begun so Intel has now started to deliver two new Atom processors which are aimed at the two types of products. Coming in a 22x22 mm package (the Z-series Atoms are 13x14mm), the Atom N230 and N270 processors (codename Diamondville) are both 45nm parts clocked at 1.6 GHz, with 512kB of L2 cache and FSBs set to 533 MHz.
The N270 features a TDP of just 2W and will be used in netbooks like Asus' Eee PC, MSI's Wind, Acer's Aspire one etc while the N230, with its 4W TDP will have to settle for the less mobile but still easy to carry nettops like the Asus Eee Box. The Atom N270 will be paired up with the 945GSE chipset while the N230's partner is the 945GC.
The N270 features a TDP of just 2W and will be used in netbooks like Asus' Eee PC, MSI's Wind, Acer's Aspire one etc while the N230, with its 4W TDP will have to settle for the less mobile but still easy to carry nettops like the Asus Eee Box. The Atom N270 will be paired up with the 945GSE chipset while the N230's partner is the 945GC.
Intel's Atom — First Benchmarks and a Full PC Review
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PC Pro has received, benchmarked and discussed the first Intel Atom processor to be seen in the wild. A full analysis of the Atom processor itself is accompanied by a full review of the first PC — yes it's a PC, not a laptop — to use one. The benchmark results are pretty much as expected, but it's the power savings that really excite. And as a rep from the PC maker, Tranquil, joked — they could have left the Atom CPU uncooled if they'd really wanted to prove a point, as it's the old graphics chip that produces 70% of the heat coming from the motherboard. Exciting times ahead for the upcoming Atom-based Eee and friends.
MojoKid was one of several readers, too, to mention the upcoming Eee Box mini-desktop from Asus (also Atom-based), which is supposed to start from $299, writing "although the actual dimensions are listed, the image from ASUS' booth really gives a sense of scale. In the picture, the Eee Box is standing next to a paperback book.
MojoKid was one of several readers, too, to mention the upcoming Eee Box mini-desktop from Asus (also Atom-based), which is supposed to start from $299, writing "although the actual dimensions are listed, the image from ASUS' booth really gives a sense of scale. In the picture, the Eee Box is standing next to a paperback book.
Intel Atom Processor
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Intel's smallest chip. Built with the world's smallest transistors¹.
"This is our smallest processor built with the world's smallest transistors. The Intel® Atom™ processor is based on an entirely new design, built for low power and designed specifically for a new wave of Mobile Internet Devices and simple, low-cost PC's. This small wonder is a fundamental new shift in design, small yet powerful enough to enable a big Internet experience on these new devices. We believe it will unleash new innovation across the industry."
– Intel Executive Vice President Sean Maloney
As Intel's smallest and lowest power processor², the Intel Atom processor enables the latest Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), affordable Internet-focused notebooks (netbooks), and desktops (nettops). It's also the foundation for the all new Intel® Centrino® Atom™ processor technology, a collection of chips enabling amazing Internet experiences in pocketable devices.
- Get a new range of performance-packed, power-efficient devices with excellent performance enabled by all new hafnium-infused 45nm high-k silicon technology
- Increase energy efficiency in smaller more compact designs with a thermal design power specification ranging from subwatt to 2.5 watts for mobile devices
- Extend battery life in select devices with an incredibly low idle power as low as 30 mW allowing the device to stay powered on while also conserving energy
Based on an entirely new microarchitecture, the Intel Atom processor was developed specifically for performance and low power while maintaining full Intel® Core™ microarchitecture instruction set compatibility. Some future Intel Atom processors will also feature multiple threads for better performance and increased system responsiveness.
Devices powered by Intel Atom processors allow you to stay in touch on-the-go, connect to business and enjoy entertainment, remain connected affordably with a new series of netbooks and nettops, and so much more...
Intel's Atom processor unveiled
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We dive into Silverthorne and the Menlow platform
The trend toward ever smaller and cheaper PC components is, of course, nothing new. Chips have shrunk and prices have fallen for over 30 years now. Yet that trend has accelerated dramatically in recent years, spurred onward by the rise of mobile computing and signified by the success of low-cost laptops like the Asus Eee PC and high-zoot mobile computers like the iPhone. Sensing this trend, the world's largest chipmaker kicked off an effort four years ago to develop a CPU that could fit inside the power, heat, and size requirements of such devices while maintaining compatibility with its existing lineup of PC processors. Internally at Intel, this processor became known as Silverthorne, and the core logic associated with it was code-named Poulsbo. Together, they make up the so-called Menlow platform, whose development we've been tracking for some time now...
Full article: http://techreport.com/articles.x/14458
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