Intel introduces Atom, CPU for gadgets
Intel Corp is rolling out five new Atom microprocessors and a collection of chips designed for portable gadgets that access the Internet and for other uses, as the world’s largest chipmaker uses its marketing muscle to help create a new market. The low-power, tiny Atom chips will come in speeds of up to 1.86 gigahertz and Intel says that speed, plus other technologies designed into the chip, make it the fastest processor that consumes 3 watts of electricity or less. The recently named Atom family of processors is part of Intel’s effort to have chips designed with Intel Architecture — the fundamental blueprint of its semiconductors — in myriad computing devices — from what it calls mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, all the way up to high-performance computers.
That is where the Atom and Centrino Atom, come in. The Centrino Atom also includes a single-chip with integrated graphics called Intel System Controller Hub that allows for PC-like capabilities and long battery life for devices that fit in a user’s pocket. Major device makers are already planning to adopt Atom, with more than 20 manufacturers coming out with products using the processor. As far as MIDs, those will start shipping in May. Intel expects about 30 percent of those MIDs to have both WiFi — short range high-speed wireless Internet access — and WiMax — longer-range high-speed access designed into them. MID device makers include Asus, Fujitsu, Lenovo, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba, among others, and prices will probably average about $500, with some priced higher than that or lower, depending on the functions.
Source: Reuters
Comments(19)
Very cool, cant wait till they release some awesome hardware !!
great hmmmm …….. and these gadgets are gona cost a fortune
ohh an 1st post .. woot
1.86GHz in a DPA… *drools*
4:
“1.86GHz in a DPA… *drools*”.
Stop drooling. Its a 2 thread “In Order” CPU. Performence wise its on par with a 900Mhz Celleron. Its not full blown Core2 Cpu running on 1.86Ghz. A lot of people are going to be fooled by this.
Its designed to use little power, with low manufacturing costs.
Who cares? It’s x86 in a handheld!
LOL @3…nope, you’re late for 1st by a minute. pwned noob!!!
This is more of a cpu for smaller devices. Trust me, i know.
The 9″ EEE with the higher end 533Mhz bus + hyperthreading version of this chip will pwn and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. In the tech demo they showeed it playing Half-Life 2.
Mr. Know it All #7,
Take a look at the name of #1 and #3.
Cross you fingers for the bannination!
So, is this cpu gonna be for small laptops like the EEE or it will be fitted in PDAs???
Will this be able to compete with the “Cell” processor that’s being redesigned for hand-held devices?
I’d like to see something like this in a future PMP player, so we could finally see some decent codec support (without converting) and long battery life.
The closest thing we have to that today is probably the Cowon A3 or perhaps the Archos 7 series.
I think this chip is going to be in the coming mobile and PDA phones. All that mobiles need now is a tiny fan cooling it down silently.
First…woot
abt time. ati and nvidia, get ur asses rolling! cant wait to see PDAs with full blown cpu n gpu. lol. now we need only cooling system….liquid nitro….lol
old news kek
The sub-$200 dollar portable pc-compatible computer is coming, and Intel thinks it can milk the ‘toys-for-rich-idiots’ market that so notably DOES NOT, AND WILL NOT EXIST for restricted performance PC’s. In other words, Intel still does not get it. The cheapest atom still prices itself out of the ultra-cheap (and soon to be massively successful) products.
Intel will change its strategy, but not until the competition has got a good foothold. At the moment, price (of the CPU/chipset) is everything. Performance has only to be good enough to browse at the rez of these devices (other commonly required apps need less processing power than this). However, it would be nice if the coming second-gen products can decode video at their native rez. All other far less important ‘power-app’ requirements (like decoding hidef video to an external output) can wait til the third gen, at which time Intel will be offering a sensible price range.
Intel may well think it is making hay while the sun is shining, and possibly delaying (or killing) the sub-$200 portable PC. This is the history of this biz. The dinosaurs taking many many months to notice that conditions have changed, and new behaviour is not only desirable, but essential.
Intel, without doubt, has a process, and thus power advantage. However, if I were a manufacturer of these cheap portables, forced to use non-Intel at the mo, I’d use a removal battery, and provide two, so that one could be charging as the other was in use, allowing time-unlimited mobile use in the home, eliminating (in one sense) the power efficiency advantage of Intel’s CPU’s.
i would fry this chip in seconds…
micro heatsink please.
3W of power consumption isnt going to run hot at all
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