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Monday, October 13, 2008

Intel ships dual-core Atom

The Atom 330 has two 1.6GHz processor cores, 1M byte of Level 2 cache, supports 667MHz DDR2 memory, and is priced at $43 in 1,000-unit quantities.
By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor -- Electronic News, 9/22/2008
According to a price list available to customers today, Intel Corp has officially begun shipping the first dual-core version of its much-touted Atom processor.
In August at its developer forum, Intel said it would ship the first dual-core Atom (pictured left) this month, with the model 330 processor aimed at Atom-based desktops called nettops or netbooks.
Intel also has a single-core Atom for this category of small PCs.
The Atom 330 has two 1.6GHz processor cores, 1M byte of Level 2 cache and supports 667MHz DDR2 memory. The single-core 1.6GHz Atom 230 chip supports 533MHz DDR 2 memory.
A datasheet could not be located at press time for further technical details, but the chip is priced at $43 in 1,000-unit quantities, making it the least expensive dual-core Intel processor, along with the dual-core Celeron processor, which is also priced at $43.

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