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Acer America Corp. is a computer manufacturer of business and consumer PCs, notebooks, ultrabooks, projectors, servers, and storage products.

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December 24, 2009 |

Intel Rolls Out Its Latest Atom Platform

Processors feature chips that integrate graphics and memory controller in the CPU, enabling power reduction, smaller systems, and performance improvements.

Intel Corp. has announced new versions of its Intel Atom processors that feature integrated graphics built directly into the CPU. The chip-maker says the integrated graphics enable improved performance and smaller, more energy-efficient designs in a new generation of netbooks and Atom-based entry level desktop PCs.†

Major OEMs have committed to having systems on the new Intel Atom processors and a new companion chipset available within the next few weeks.

The Intel Atom platform for netbooks consists of a new processor, the N450, and a new low-power Intel NM10 Express Chipset. For entry level desktop PCs, it consists of either the Intel Atom processor D410 or the dual core D510, also paired with the Intel NM10 Express Chipset. The Intel Atom processor was designed from the ground up for small devices and low power, and remains Intel’s smallest chip, built on the company’s 45nm high-k metal gate manufacturing process.

The netbook platform features a 20 percent improvement in average power and a smaller package size over the previous Atom platform, according to Intel. “This translates into smaller and more compact system designs and longer battery life. Because of the integration, the total footprint for the netbook platform has decreased by approximately 60 percent,” states the Intel press release.

The N450 is a single core Atom processor with 512k of L2 cache and a 7 watt total kit TDP including chipset. The D410 for entry-level desktop PCs is a single-core Atom processor with 512k of L2 cache and a 12-watt total kit TDP including chipset, and the D510 for entry-level desktop PCs is a dual core Atom processor with 1meg L2 cache and a 15-watt total kit TDP including chipset. The new chips all run at 1.66GHz. Pricing and availability will be announced in January as systems become available from OEMs.

Intel says it is seeing broad support for the Atom platforms. In recent press release to EH Publishing, Intel says netbooks have been “hot sellers during a recessionary year due to their affordability, function, and small size.

“Intel is expecting to see broad channel adoption for Atom in a variety of small form factor entry-level desktop PCs at low price points, including ultra-small designs, fanless designs, and low-cost all-in-one designs,” the press release states.

Since Intel announced the first Atom processors for netbooks and entry-level desktop PCs in June 2008, the netbook market has indeed expanded. Since that time, for example, Intel has shipped over 40 million Atom chips for netbooks.

According to ABI Research, total Atom shipments for all segments are expected to continue to grow into the 100s of millions by 2011

“The Intel Atom processor has fueled an entirely new category of computing over the last year and a half,” says Mooly Eden, Intel’s corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s PC Client Group, “and we think the growth will continue for devices like netbooks and entry-level PCs built around basic computing and Internet usage models.”

One of the most significant features of the new platform is the integration of memory controller and graphics into the CPU, a first in the industry on x-86 chips. This gives netbook providers two chips (CPU???) instead of the previous three (CPU, chipset, I/O controller hub) as well as a lower TDP and substantial reductions in cost, overall footprint, and power.


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