Intel Atom 330 Dual-Core
A great demand of mobile and ultra-mobile PCs has been recorded over the past months in Asia and the American continents and with the advancements in CPU technology we can now tap a pretty big amount of processing power by using only reduced form-factor PCs. To provide this processing power, Intel came up with the Atom CPU, specifically designed for the new wave of compact mobile PCs. AMD was quick to point out that already had an answer to the Atom architecture and it recently turned out that these CPUs were faster than the Atom, although needed a bit more power to run. Now Intel wants to bring the dual-core Atom and take the compact mobile PCs to another level.
Rumors about the dual-core Atom have started to circulate on the Internet since May 2008, but Intel has managed to prevent any major information leak about the CPUs up until recently. The guys over at Engadget China somehow got hold of a dual-core Atom and some info on the new architecture. The CPU you see in the above image is supposed to be the new Atom 330 dual-core and should be officially launched some time in October.
Atom 330 is expected to provide more than double the processing power offered by its predecessor, thanks to its two cores working at 1.6GHz with four threads. The CPU package also integrates 1MB of L2 cache and will work with a 533MHz FSB. Atom 330 is going to be included in the next wave of nettops, netbooks and ultramobile PCs arriving Q4 2008.
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