Intel Atom

ChampionLLY · 3rd Mar 2008, 05:57 PM

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Intel has officially announced its new branding for the “Silverthorne” processor and the “Menlow” platform. The Silverthorne processor will be called the “Intel Atom”. The Menlow platform will be called “Intel Centrino Atom”. The Intel Atom processor will be used in the Intel Centrino Atom platform. The new Atom logos are shown below.

Here’s a summary of the new “Atom” processor:

* Equivalent on single-threaded performance to original Pentium M “Banias” processor. Faster if SSE3 instructions are used in the application or if multiple threads are involved.
* 0.6W TDP (Thermal Design Power) to 2.5W TDP
* Up to 1.8 GHz and DailyTech says sources inside Intel are saying that the 500 MHz version goes down to 0.6W TDP.
* Idle power consumption can drop as low as 0.01W to 0.1W
* Deep power down C6 state
* Optimized register-file and cache 6T bits cells
* CMOS mode on quad-pumped FSB IO
* Split IO power supply
* Single CPU core 2-issue in-order pipeline
* SMT (Symmetric Multithread) architecture
* 25mm^2 die size (2500 CPUs per 300mm diameter wafer)
* Can achieve 2GHz core frequencies at 1.0V
* Intel VT (Virtualization Technology)
* Intel 64 architecture (formerly EM64T and compatible with AMD64)

Source: Intel christens Silverthorne as “Atom” | George Ou | ZDNet.com

ChampionLLY · 3rd Mar 2008, 06:06 PM

Mac Daddy · 3rd Mar 2008, 08:09 PM

Wow powerful lil bugger isn't it

The_YongGrand · 3rd Mar 2008, 11:14 PM

Are these nifty little things be inside the embedded computers as well?

They should have put these in extremely small notebooks too. Makes a wonderful combination.

Adrian Wong · 3rd Mar 2008, 11:23 PM

Ahh.. Just received the press release. There's supposed to be a concall on this tomorrow morning. It's based on the Silverthorne processor. We covered this earlier here - Tech ARP - Upcoming Intel Processor & Memory Technologies

Zenphic · 4th Mar 2008, 06:52 AM

"the Silverthorne processor will be roughly as fast as the Intel Pentium M mobile processor"

"designed to deliver ultra-low power (sub-1W to 2W)"

Slap that processor in a laptop and, if the price is right, I'll take it!!

Chai · 4th Mar 2008, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Zenphic

"the Silverthorne processor will be roughly as fast as the Intel Pentium M mobile processor"

"designed to deliver ultra-low power (sub-1W to 2W)"

Slap that processor in a laptop and, if the price is right, I'll take it!!

Wow, that's impressive! Can they fit that into a PDA?

werty316 · 4th Mar 2008, 09:40 AM

That is one small ship.

Zenphic · 5th Mar 2008, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Chai

Wow, that's impressive! Can they fit that into a PDA?

The article only mentioned that the processor would be used in Intel's lineup of Mini-ITX though

But there was also mention of Mobile Internet Devices. Close enough to a PDA

ZuePhok · 5th Mar 2008, 07:58 PM

menlow definitely cant do pda. moorestown will be the one you want. a further 10x reduction in idle power consumption.

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