atom? thats like ultra lame.. and strange to pronounce ' intellatom ' how about nucleus or mono or hamburger, it sounds better. they have great cpus but can't name em properly. and what's '' 2 duo '' supposed to mean??
The Ultra Mobile Centrino Platform
Alongside the Atom, Intel is also announcing a new category of the Centrino brand to be targeted at mobile devices. Quite logically, this will be called Intel Centrino Atom. This isn't a brand for normal notebook computers, this is a brand for mobile Internet devices (mids). While ultra portable notebooks and even low power desktops may chose to make use of Atom, they will not be branded as Centrino Atom.
The specific requirements for Centrino Atom are as follows:
Intel Atom (Silverthorne) CPU Poulsbo chipset, Wifi and/or 3G, and/or Wimax support (Intel or 3rd party). Must have battery powered screen size less than or equal to 6". Devices must be less than or equal to a 7.5" diagonal width with thicknesses being less than or equal to 1.02".
The fact that wireless networking support under Centrino Atom can be provided by a 3rd party is a huge (and very welcome) departure from the current Centrino requirements. Future versions of Centrino Atom will tighten up these requirements as well, but what we are seeing is certainly a good starting place for the types of devices that could benefit from the Centrino Atom brand.
The future of mobile compute looks very bright indeed, and now it has a name: Atom.
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what kind of name is that? by cokbun on Monday, March 03, 2008
RE: what kind of name is that? by Griswold on Monday, March 03, 2008
It beats "Nucular", though.
(if you didnt get it, watch more simpsons)
(if you didnt get it, watch more simpsons)
atom backwards is. by ucsdmike on Monday, March 03, 2008
Mota. Its what they were on when they thought of the name.
We need those Dual Core Version to be inside our NAS.
Only then we will have an NAS that is capable to push 60+Mb /s and really usable as a storage device.
Only then we will have an NAS that is capable to push 60+Mb /s and really usable as a storage device.
Anand missed something... by stmok on Sunday, March 02, 2008
There is going to be a dual-core version of Diamondville.
It will be officially marketed as the Celeron 3xx.
Intel is planning on a Q3 2008 release.
It is for the affordable desktop market.
It will be officially marketed as the Celeron 3xx.
Intel is planning on a Q3 2008 release.
It is for the affordable desktop market.
I hope this really comes to desktop by sheh on Sunday, March 02, 2008
A desktop computer for general use with a <10W (or even <5?) CPU sounds very promising. VIA's CPUs were an option, but too rare and probably more expensive (and less efficient).
Add SSD, extra-integrated motherboard, and you have a small, passively cooled, <50W computer (sans monitor).
Add SSD, extra-integrated motherboard, and you have a small, passively cooled, <50W computer (sans monitor).
Nice by DigitalFreak on Sunday, March 02, 2008
Good name. Much better than Pentium or Centrino. It even fits in a way.
Yeah Intel rules at marketing thats for sure. Now if AMD would do half as good... do they even advertise on TV?
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@marcreichman what's insane is that you can get that much compute in blades now as well
@anshelsag haha yeah, too late, clicked the wrong button :)
Will be doing power and perf comparison between the old and new configs over the coming weeks. For now, it's bedtime
That was high-end back in 2006 - 8 cores in a 4U box, now we have 12 in a 2U box
Finally carried our old DB server up to the lab: four socket, dual-core Opteron 880 based HP ProLiant DL585 http://t.co/ftyi8BPF
@ozym4ndias @wilshipley @pmod not really, not internal at least. here's a hint: http://t.co/iv6wXn7I :)
@RandomMegaBytes the 512GB drive won't actually update to the latest firmware, but the 128/256GB drives are very quick
@pmod IVB gives you the same memory bandwidth as SNB, likely see DDR3-1600 in mobile
@wilshipley @pmod remember with Ivy Bridge TDPs don't actually go down, in 2013 that will change though...
@wilshipley @pmod The Pro won't go away entirely, but we will see a trend towards thinner notebooks in general.
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I thought the top Silverthorne was supposed to run at 2GHz? Is Intel slipping a bit?