Intel is Stepping on the Gas for Atom CPU Plans
New Atom technology every year for the next three years. Get ready for faster Atoms.
Intel's latest desktop and laptop chips are of the Sandy Bridge family, but when it comes to the entry-level price points and netbooks, it's all about the Atom.
The Atom processor family hasn't been getting the love that Intel's desktop-class chips get, but that'll all change. Intel's Executive Vice President Sean Maloney at his Computex address highlighted key milestones and additional details on upcoming generations of Intel Atom processor-based platforms for tablets, netbooks and smartphones.
Intel says that the upcoming Atom processor innovations will actually outpace Moore’s Law, accelerating from 32nm through 22nm to 14nm within three successive years. Improvements from one generation to the next will include reduction in transistor leakage, lower active power and increase of transistor density to enable more powerful smartphones, tablets, netbooks with more features and longer battery life.
Reaching its 100 million-unit milestone this month, Intel is preparing its next-generation netbook platform, codenamed “Cedar Trail.” Cedar Trail is the first netbook platform based on Intel’s 32nm technology, and will bring ultra-thin, fanless designs with new capabilities such as Rapid Start technology which provides fast resume, Smart Connect Technology which enables always updated experience even during standby, Wireless Display and PC Synch, which let users wirelessly update and synchronize documents, content and media across multiple devices. In addition, the new platform will enable more than 10 hours of battery life and weeks of standby. Cedar Trail will support leading operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome and MeeGo.

He said outclassed, meaning it will remain the superior of the two, not the better selling.
Typical Intel fanboy, saying AMD is done.
Which is why AMD has sold far more units than the 100 million Intel just celebrated, right? Right?
He said outclassed, meaning it will remain the superior of the two, not the better selling.
Just seems much easier to underclock/fewer cores/less cache an Ivy Bridge/Haswell or make a very different architecture more like the ARM. Is the x86 so inherently inefficient (or not well suited for small devices)? I'm Missing something basic?
Yes, I also think the Cedar Trail is only a modest improvement over the Pineview and will get spanked just as easily.
Could you name any tasks other than gaming that require a 'good GPU' on an Atom system? And gaming is much less important than children think.
Toyota sell more cars than BMW and Mercedes together...does that mean Toyota's cars are better than ze German's vehicles? I think not.
(that was me agreeing with zooted btw)
Yet it has worked out well for their desktop lineup. Intel releases a new arch and then a new porcess within two yesr. They are basically going to do the same with Atom. And I think that once they move Atom to 22nm it will be a major game changer due to the 3D tri gate tech. They can stack memory on the die which will eliminate the need for memory anywhere elese, make it much faster since it will be on the die and cut system costs.
Add that to the extra power savings that 22nm will bring plus the advanced power states Atom will have at 32nm (it can turn off parts of the CPU that is not needed when in use).
Toyota has had the best quality rating for a while. Ford is actually rapidly coming upon that, due to them utilizing their European designs more and VW, a German car maker, now ahs some of their cars manufatured in China.
Of course better is all about the person. Some people don't take care of their cars. My Ford COntour is 12 years old and the most I have had to do was replace the upper and lower air intake gaskets.
If resale value is any indicator, yes... the Toyota is better. Oh, Honda also holds higher resale value than BMW, MB. Higher prices doesn't always mean that you're getting a better product.
Only minor changes were made to the Mondeo ( US EPA/DOT) requirements to make the car legal for sale in the USA, and they changed the name.
Actually the next generation Mondeo will be sold in the US sometime in the next couple of years. It will be almost the same as the European version and carry the Mondeo name plate.
How do you know?Oh wait,i know - you have crystal ball with amd letters on it and you can see very bright amd future LOL
I bet,that Intel will trash any amd cpu,and very "smart" talking about Atom,when he is nearly 3y old and compare it to recently released products.New Atom will trash amd,but knowing amd,they probably will give only promises,just like with BullDozeER xD
Yo failed with your comparison with cars,its not cars,its IT,here are different rules,and thats why Intel selling way to many cpu's comparing to lame amd offers.
Its clear to every with brains,that Intels cpu to superior for amd to catch,amd ages behind and giving they fans only promises.Anybody BullDozzeER? xD
Only good amd exist its because you get fantastic cpu (Sandy) for good price,which owes any amd cpu,and probably will owe that IT's Duke Nukem Forever - bullldozzer xD
For overall engineering prowess, innovation and reliability, Toyota is definitely the world leader, then Honda, followed by the Germans, then the rest of the Japanese carmakers, with America in a distant 4th, then the Koreans. Toyotas are engineering marvels if you take the time to study them and see what they've done, especially when you compare them to something like a Ford(V6 FWD cars that require you to remove the engine to change the back 3 sparkplugs, anyone?).
Yours Truly,
A guy who's owned a lot of different cars
hmm, GPU (or APU) will become increasingly important, with HTML 5 around the corner and GPU accelerated browsers becoming the norm, low power netbooks/tablets will be missing the best bits of the next web if they don't have decent graphics processing.
why do u pay more and get a crappy atom with no good GPU while u can pay less or the same and get a Fusion APU that come with good GPU ?
AMD > Intel on pure performance per watt on all GPU fronts
Intel > ALL on pure manufacturing process...
So Intel pushing for a piece of the ultra portable market makes perfect sense. This also explain Intel's very large "investment" in Nvidia.