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Intel Atom CPU - 32 or 64 bits?
Blog The ones that turned out to be interesting were the Atom CPU systems - the ASUS N10J netbook, with an Atom N270, and the desktop mini-server with an Atom 330. It turns out that the desktop versions of the Atom CPU (230 and 330) have the 64-bit x86...
[October 5, 2009, 8:56]
Atom-based ultraportables at IDF
News More than a dozen ultramobile computers, powered by Intel's new Atom CPU, were on display at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco this week. Based on a Penryn CPU, not Atom, it has enough power to play full, high-definition video smoothly.
[August 22, 2008, 9:21]
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 review
Reviews Component-wise, the Mini 9 is similar to other recent Netbooks, such as the Eee PC 901 and the Acer Aspire One (which all use Intel's Atom CPU). With Intel's new 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, specifically designed for low-power Netbooks, you're not going...
[September 8, 2008, 10:22]
Via Nano to take on Intel's Atom
News Taiwanese chip manufacturer Via Technologies has released a new energy-efficient CPU, the Via Nano, which will go head-to-head with Intel's latest mobile processor, Atom. According to a whitepaper released by Via last week, the Nano "will initially...
[June 2, 2008, 8:41]
HP Mini 2140 review
Reviews It retains the aluminium construction and big keyboard, but updates the components to an Intel Atom CPU, adding an accelerometer for the hard drive and a full ExpressCard/54 slot a netbook first (Lenovo's S10 has a smaller Express Card/34 slot).
[February 3, 2009, 14:34]
Intel Atom(ic) Inside (Atom power part 3)
Blog Intel indicates that as the product matures, it will add functionality to the core CPU by adding silicon implementations of functions originally introduced as software programmed into the Flash logic-memory module in the Atom.
[June 6, 2008, 17:38]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 1 (Overview)
Blog I will be trying each of these on my ASUS N10J netbook, which I believe is very typical of netbook hardware configuration - Intel Atom 270 CPU, Intel 945 GME graphic controller, 10.2" 1024x600 screen, wired and wireless network connection, and...
[November 4, 2009, 12:07]
DIY Dual Atom Nettop System
Blog Intel says that the hyperthreading in the Atom causes the Dual CPU to appear as four processors, so that is normal. I didn't even know Intel made a dual Atom CPU, perhaps I haven't been paying enough attention?
[June 5, 2009, 13:41]
ecoquiet RM ONE 50: a first look review
Reviews Although the 45nm single-core/dual-thread Atom chip has been widely talked up as a CPU for mini-notebooks and even smaller Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), it will also, in its Diamondville guise, appear in low-cost desktops such as the £548...
[June 3, 2008, 13:20]
Atom Power - part 2
Blog The combination of the Atom CPU and the ISCH is a complete 2 chip PC system that runs with a execution of one command per clock cycle. One of the presentations described a new Nand-Nor Flash technology that Intel was announcing and as feature for...
[June 6, 2008, 4:59]
HP "Entertainment PC" Revisited
Blog The 2133 has a VIA C7-M CPU and VIA Chrome 9 graphic controller; the 2140 was a very standard Intel Atom based system, and the new 1010ez has an AMD Athlon Neo CPU and ATI Radeon graphic controller. The AMD Athlon Neo processor is noticeably faster...
[September 29, 2009, 14:27]
Tempest Toast, Apples and Atoms
Blog They will take an industrial temperature (-40 to +85C) rated CPU part (Intel Z530 Atom) and then "marry" it to a bunch of parts that aren't! I actually had a vendor promise me a quote on an Industrial temp range single board computer based on the...
[October 11, 2008, 10:03]
P3 Xubuntu
Blog In many ways this system is much like the new Intel Atom systems at least in feature set and speed. So Xubuntu might be a OS solution for the Atom netbooks. I have used it for light-duty tasks that do not require much CPU cycle time.
[December 30, 2008, 8:35]
Fedora 11
Blog Now, to be fair, this is only an Atom-based system, but as it is a pretty well equipped dual CPU Atom system, I suppose this means that I wouldn't be rushing right out to put Fedora 11 on a netbook. But if you have a netbook, with either an Atom or...
[June 28, 2009, 8:18]
ASUS N10J - Netbook or Notebook?
Blog Overall very good, and very pleasant to use, but it is an odd combination of a relatively slow CPU (Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz), and a relatively fast graphic card (nVidei GeForce 9300). It should be no surprise to anyone that it runs like a...
[July 17, 2009, 12:10]
Nvidia puts high-def graphics into netbooks
News The Ion platform pairs the GeForce 9400 with a truly great Intel Atom CPU and lets consumers surf the internet, play top games, edit photos and watch videos all in high definition. Nvidia claims Ion, which pairs a GeForce 9400 GPU with Intel's...
[December 18, 2008, 15:33]
Samsung NC20 review
Reviews Most netbook makers base their systems on Intel's Atom processor, but Samsung has used VIA's Nano U2250, which runs at '1.3+GHz the '+' signifies that the CPU has more to offer than its nominal clock speed suggests.
[March 17, 2009, 14:27]
Although...
Talkback What we have now in terms of CPU power & efficiency is very good from both Intel and AMD but things like the atom make me cringe a bit because yes its good, but its not that much to shout about, when they can make it twice as powerful as it is now...
[September 15, 2009, 19:43]
Which Netbook ? Help !
Blog Comment It has a VIA CPU, rather than the typical Intel Atom for these things, if that matters to you. Utz, have you looked at the HP 2133 Mini Note? I know that it has a standard external VGA connector, and I just got an advert with a huge price cut on it...
[January 21, 2009, 11:44]
Apple buys processor company, opens whole new world of speculation
Blog Comment A trend that the Atom and other recent low power chips represent is fuller and much tighter integration of the CPU with what used to be peripherals. Another side benefit to buying your own CPU is that you can always threaten to design your own CPU...
[April 24, 2008, 10:38]
