Intel launches super small Atom processors
Intel Corp. is launching a branding campaign for a forthcoming family of ultra-small chips, hoping to drive demand for two emerging categories of computing devices. The company will use the name Atom in marketing a new microprocessor line that has two variants. One chip, previously known by the code name Silverthorne, is designed to be the calculating engine for pocket-sized gadgets that Intel calls MIDs, for mobile Internet devices. The other chip to carry the Atom brand, code-named Diamondville, is designed for low-end laptop and desktop computers expected to cost around $250.Intel, of Santa Clara, Calif., also plans to introduce the brand Centrino Atom for a “platform” of technologies for mobile Internet devices, including a Silverthorne chip and a companion Intel chip that includes graphics functions.
The phrase extends the Centrino brand that Intel introduced in 2003 for technology used in laptop computers. The chip measures less than 25mm square and is packed with 47 million transistors. “This is our smallest processor built with the world’s smallest transistors,” said Intel Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Sean Maloney. “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.”
Source: Intel, WSJ
can i get one in a small?
Term”intel”tor
Skynet is next, right?
Is it this CPU that will be present in the EEE9000?
I guess this CPU is part of the Menron platform…
This CPU is in order execute so it won’t perform as well as the out of order execute most of us use. Which is why they added the HT feature.
AMD we need you to kick some intel ass..
hopefully this won’t be microscopic as i thought
but how many cores does it have and what speed are we talking here…
nonetheless it is interesting.
Skynet is next, right?
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I was gonna do that gag -creepy eh?
LOL @ Skynet being next.
We have a few decades to go yet but the idea is terrifying, though the military are, most likely, already experimenting with it.
You know what this means, right? Time for microchip enemas!
No multicore support on that thing, it would be against the point of shrinking it down to such dimensions.
This is exactly the direction the industry should be heading towards. The power thing is over done. We have enough of it already. What we need is small and efficient processors. If they are cheaper then its all the better.
you u know its all thanks to: Research center in israel, haifa./banias architecture.
AMD, invest in israel, youll be on the top again.
Seems the Israeli’s are better at this stuff than killing palestinian terrorists.
Although they could now microchip them all at birth, and hunt them down like dogs later