Intel Atom 1.6Ghz Dual-core Processor is officially available now.  Intel has seem to set a priority for mini-notebooks and netbooks, which is what this processor will do best at.

Intel has officially begun shipping a 45nm dual-core Intel® Atom™ Processor known as the Intel Atom Processor 330. The newest member of the Atom family is designed specifically for nettops, which are affordable desktops purpose-built primarily for web surfing, email, and basic Internet usage. The dual-core Intel® Atom™ Processor 330 features a 1.6GHz processing core, 1MB of level 2 cache, an 8W TDP and support for DDR2 667. The new processor is available as an integrated package and has been validated with the Intel® 945GC Express Chipset, featuring built-in Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and Intel® High Definition Audio.

via engadget, Press Release

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This entry was posted by max on Saturday, September 20th, 2008 at 11:27 am and is filed under CPU, Computer, Consumer, Cool, Gadgets, Laptop, News.