Atom Dual Core

I found a review http://www.guru3d.com/article/ecs- [...] gc-review/

It looks sweet and still only 8W with 1.6 GHz, 2x512KB (1MB) of L2 cache and has hyperthreading still

When do you all think Netbooks will start coming out with these babys on

I heard a rumor from Fudzilla that Intel won't even let manufacturers put the Atom 330 in netbooks. Anyway, the dual-core Atom 330 is not really all that impressive as C2D ULVs have a slightly higher TDP (10 watts) but have much higher performance. The single-core Celeron 220 at 1.20 GHz and with much less cache than the C2D ULVs beat the single-core Atom pretty soundly, so the C2D ULVs ought to really smash the Atom dual-core. (I've not seem then benched against each other.) I think the only real saving grace for the Atom 330 is that it's probably going to be less than a hundred bucks, compared to the ~$230-290 prices the C2D ULVs run OEMs.

EDIT: typo

Atoms r also designed to be cheap and that they are so i think price/performance wise they arnt bad

Also they are meant 2 run cool which from what ive seen they do very well aswell

Intel beter let it be used for netbooks as a it would be perfect for it, cheap, lower power and powerful enough to be able 2 multitask

Comparing what the uses they are for, the size of the entire package and the fact that Intel gets 2500 of these per wafer compared to only a few hundred for Core 2 per wafer, I think they will do fine.

Once Intel goes to the next step and either integrates the chipset on the die or makes the chipset itself smaller it will bring a new range of smaller protable devices with a much more powerful core.

But I still find it weird they even decided to release a desktop variant since 1. the chipset it is paired with sucks and is about 2 years old and 2. it was obviously not made for desktop apps. Netbook yes but desktop not so much.