Intel's Silverthorne Ultra-Mobile Processor Now Called 'Atom'
"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."
'Atom' offers very low-power consumption (0.6-2.5 watt) over Intel's laptop-class processors (35 watt) yet preserves the Core 2 Duo instruction set. In theory, this means that Mac software could run unmodified on the new low-power processors. Intel envisions the use of these processors to introduce a new class of internet capable devices.Rumors have placed 'Atom' processors in upcoming mobile devices from Apple -- either the rumored Apple tablet/PDA or the next generation iPhone.
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52 months ago
Very cool. I've had my iPhone since October and I can't wait to update it, hopefully this summer with 3G and all sorts of new goodies including this chip.
52 months ago
Sweet name.
The fundamental building block of all kinds of new mobile devices.
I like!
52 months ago
I wonder what would happen if Intel made a processor smaller than that one. What would they call it??? :rolleyes:
52 months ago
I feel like it must be said......
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Up and Atom
Couldn't resist the obvious simpsons reference
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Up and Atom
Couldn't resist the obvious simpsons reference
52 months ago
I wonder what would happen if Intel made a processor smaller than that one. What would they call it??? :rolleyes:
...its kinda like taking the Pentium which pent refered to 5th generation, aka 586, and then calling the "686" and "786" generations Pentium Pro, PII, PIII, etc. They sometimes lock themselves into these naming conventions
Or...Core Duo 2.....now that was just stupid
52 months ago
I wonder what would happen if Intel made a processor smaller than that one. What would they call it??? :rolleyes:
pi-Meson?
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