Quad-Core Intel Atom CPUs Coming in 2013

They need to drop the whole Atom name and start from scratch. Atom has a reputation on par with a GM model car.

I don't think I'd want to buy a chip as inefficient as an Atom and then do worse by adding more cores.

2013!!!? LOL

GM has some of the highest rated cars on the market right now, soooo.....

Sounds good on paper, but can it pirate crysis?

sorry to LOL, but what "market" is that ?
If you travel overseas you'd be surprised on how many GM cars you will see on the roads; virtually none.

If their cars where so highly rated by consumers they would not have been in need of a multi-billion bail out deal.

Whatever name you slap on it, it will still suck. Heck we could call it FX, and it would suck...

The CPU core is still the same as the one that launched in 2008.

 Top Game developers suggest Atom 8nm.

@ geekapproved

- Actually you're incorrect. GM is a big player in Asia (specifically China) as well as Australia (GM Holden, Inc.) Also their Chevy Cruze, Caddy CTS-V, and GMC Terrain are all commercial successes in the United States.

oops, meant to direct my post to amdfangirl

hope they are improving the architecture on this processor, otherwise they're just shoving extra shit cores into a shit CPU.

you must have not ever heard of china then have you? were a Buick is seen as how we see a BMW or Mercedes. the Buick Excelle is the best selling car in china right now buddy and Buick is owned by GM.

I don't see why they wouldn't redesign the Atom chip from the ground up. Atoms are inferior to other laptop chips because anything with flash brings them to their knees. And what many people use their netbooks for? Flash video, flash games, flash everything. Inflating the clock speed of the atom to 2 ghz did not solve this problem, and neither will adding 2 more cores. The AMD laptop APUs are vastly superior to the Atoms.

Would there by any way to mix some political affiliations into the totally irrelevant pro/con GM comments here? You know, to spice it up? (re: idiots)

i personally believe that the politians had much to benefit from the bail outs of the car manufacturers(ie stocks) and that is the only reason for the buyouts. i mean come on why else would they do it.

*EDIT* Wow, my comment was way off. Removing to save myself some embarrassment. */EDIT*

Shows how little you know. In China BUICK is considered a luxury brand and highly sought after. But feel free to keep talking about things you know NOTHING about. Europeans in general don't like American cars because a: their roads aren't generally made for them, b: unlike the tards here they believe in supporting THEIR economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autom [...] ry#By_year

So, in 2010, GM sold 99% of the total vehicles as Toyota, the #1 seller; those two were well ahead of the pack with over 10% more vehicles sold than #3 Volkswagen.

Also, look at cars and light commercial vehicles only and GM has a decent lead over everyone else...

They are redesigning the ATOM, but not from the ground up. They are already extremely efficient CPUs that will no doubt get improvements across the board. Intel has promised such improvements for 2103 and beyond. I don't know why TOMs followers even comment on them since those followers are only interested in gaming rigs. These are processors made for small form factor notebooks, tablets, multimedia devices, and phones. They will serve their purpose in that arena. Everyone else can buy an Ivy Bridge or a Haswell come 2013.

I think there is also a difference in pricing-- a Ford focus starts at £13,995 in the UK and $16,500 in the US.

£13,995 is currently $21,674, so maybe paying a 30% premium to get a US made car scares some people away?

Reversing it-- an S550 in the US starts at $94,500... in the UK £60,605. That is $93,859, so essentially the same.

Here in the US we can buy a Ford or a Mercedes and the prices are pretty relative. If overseas they have to choose between market rate for European cars and paying an extra third for an American car, which one do you think they'll pick?

Next question, why do you think there is an extra 30% there?

once again a big hand for INTEL! lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv intellllllll

Judging from the logo, Atom extreme edition?

13995 euros is $17901
and 60605 euros is $77519

so you have it backwards it more expensive for us to buy their cars.

That is British Pounds, not Euros

They should stick with dual core and bring single-threaded performance up to decent levels

ITT: We talk about GM and cars

- “Ok ramblers, let's get to rambling”... The car for country roads.

The nm is vast and limitle$$. Nvidia play on 10nm Exchelon Chip.

Regarding the cars... Europeans don't like american cars not because they are american but because some of its particularities. As someone has already said some american cars are just to big for the European roads. We also prefer smaller and more efficient engines, with much more specific power than what you can see in American cars (hp/cc). to sum up in general european cars, namely german cars, have a much higher construction quality than american cars, at least when compared with the cars the americans are selling in Europe. The only decent company is Ford. GM is only selling shity cars (chevrolet - one of the worst and Opel - the worst german)

For the same reason foreign cars over here in Korea are 70~100% more expensive the comparative local brands (Hyundai, Kia, Daewoo (GM actually), Samsung). Non-tariff trade barriers put in place to protect the local domestic economy from foreign competition. You can't put a tariff on the import as that would be against any free trade agreements or trade pacts that you (the country in question) signed. Instead you create a set of local laws that in turn create domestic tax's and fee's associated with foreign purchased / owned items. The purchaser of the car is required to pay these tax's / fees not the importer, and thus it doesn't violate any trade agreements but does inflate the price of foreign purchased items.

Example is my 2009 BMW 135i. From the US it was approx $42,000 USD as ordered. Over here in SK, assuming you could find someone to sell it (they don't import that specific model) it would be over 80,000 KRW (approx $70,000 USD). There is a luxury tax, engine tax, emissions tax and foreign manufacturer registration fee associated with it. Domestic produced cars like the Genesis are exempt from many of these tax's and fee's and thus are cheaper.

Many countries do this to protect their local manufacturing base. The USA really should do this, but it doesn't and gets taken for a ride.

ahh nothing like hearing the Americans trying to defend there car makers. you know your government tried to sink Toyota to try to get your so your horrid car manufacturers back into the game

Huh????

Troll go away.