New Intel Atom Processors

by Mark Hachman of PCMAG

Intel has begun shipping its first dual-core Atom processor, the company said on Friday.On its price list, Intel characterizes the processor as one designed for nettops and netbooks, such as the Asus Eee PC line.

The Intel Atom 330 is clocked the same as the existing single-core Atom 230, or 1.6 GHz. It contains a full megabyte of level-2 cache, split over both cores; the 230 contains just 512 Kbytes. The new chip also is rated for 8 watts of thermal design power, and includes support for DDR2 667 memory. The Atom 330 is designed for the Intel 945GC Express chipset, Intel said.

The Atom 330 is priced at $43 per processor in 1,000-unit lots; the Atom 230 is priced at $29.

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Intel Releases 7 New Chips, including a 6-core.

Intel has released seven new Xeon processors (just after AMD released their tri-core processors) including one with six cores per chip that all have a 16MB shared cache memory.

The cool thing about the new Xeon 7400 series is that they can scale up to 16 sockets to create servers of up to 96 processing units inside one machine.

The Xeon 7400 series has set new four and eight socket records virtualisation, database, enterprise resource planning and e-commerce.

The specs of the chips are; frequencies of up to 2.66GHz and power levels down to 50 watts, the 6-core is x86 compatible with a 65-watt version is also available.

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