Ah, well, here is some kind of exciting news. According to , Intel is planning to release some faster Atom processors. Netbooks need not apply – these are supposed to be fore nettops only. I suppose you could fit them into netbooks as well, but there would of course be battery life consequences.
Those chips include the Atom D525, a dual-core product, and the Atom D425, a single-core variant with otherwise similar specifications. Both processors will reportedly run at an even 1.8GHz (up from 1.66GHz for current Pine Trail designs), and their memory controllers will support DDR2 and DDR3 memory.
Other specifications shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with today’s Pine Trail Atoms. Fudzilla quotes power envelopes of 10W for the D425 and 13W for the D525, essentially the same as for the existing, 1.66GHz Atom D410 and D510, respectively.
So how much of a performance increase will this translate to. Well…probably not much. The Intel Atom is not the fastest processor around and a bump of less than 200Mhz from the fastest current Pinetrail Atoms (which are up to 1.66Ghz) isn’t going to make or break it. You’d still be better of with a Via Nano or an AMD Neo if performance is really your concern.
But hey, it’s Intel. They can make a billion of these things and they’ll sell like hotcakes, so expect to see these in Eee Tops, Wind Tops and other nettops sometime later this year.
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