Intel celebrates one year of Atom chip with 2 GHz version

The US chip maker has just introduced the first Atom processor to reach 2 GHz, which can work with 2 GB DRAM, for the mobile Internet device (MID) line.

Intel first introduced Atom in April 2008 at Shanghai IDF Developer Forum (China). Atom is wreaking havoc on the netbook market (small-sized, low-cost laptops), but has yet to deliver the success of MID products as expected.

This week, Intel continues to announce two new Atom chips, in which the Z550 boosts performance to 2 GHz (currently the highest speed Atom is 1.82 GHz) with support for Intel Hyper Hyper-Threading Technology. -Threading, while the Z515 version integrates Burst Performance (Intel BPT) technology with 1.2 GHz clock.

At the IDF Beijing Forum on April 8, Intel demonstrated a MID platform using the next generation Atom processor (codenamed Moorestown) with idle power consumption 10 times lower than the platform. Use current Atom thanks to new energy management techniques and 45nm hi-k production processing cycles.

Expected to be available in the market in 2010, Moorestown includes a chip-based system (codenamed Lincroft) integrating an Intel Atom 45 nm processor core, graphics, video and memory management, and management system I / O auxiliary (code name Langwell).