• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

Acer Designs Aspire One Netbook With Low-Wattage AMD Processor

btarunr

Editor & Senior Moderator
Staff member
Joined
Oct 9, 2007
Messages
46,283 (7.69/day)
Location
Hyderabad, India
System Name RBMK-1000
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard ASUS ROG Strix B450-E Gaming
Cooling DeepCool Gammax L240 V2
Memory 2x 8GB G.Skill Sniper X
Video Card(s) Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock
Storage Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB
Display(s) BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch
Case Corsair Carbide 100R
Audio Device(s) ASUS SupremeFX S1220A
Power Supply Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
Mouse ASUS ROG Strix Impact
Keyboard Gamdias Hermes E2
Software Windows 11 Pro
Acer is expanding its Aspire One line of netbooks with an interesting new addition that features a yet to be announced AMD processor with an incredibly low TDP by AMD's standards. The Aspire One 521 features an AMD V105 "Geneva" single-core processor with a TDP of 9W, which operates at 1.2 GHz, which is expected to be based on the AMD K10 architecture. The 10.1 inch netbook has DDR3 memory, integrated ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics, and connectivity which includes Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi, and gigabit Ethernet. Its battery can power the machine for 7 hours. More information is expected soon.



View at TechPowerUp Main Site
 

Fourstaff

Moderator
Staff member
Joined
Nov 29, 2009
Messages
10,020 (1.91/day)
Location
Home
System Name Orange! // ItchyHands
Processor 3570K // 10400F
Motherboard ASRock z77 Extreme4 // TUF Gaming B460M-Plus
Cooling Stock // Stock
Memory 2x4Gb 1600Mhz CL9 Corsair XMS3 // 2x8Gb 3200 Mhz XPG D41
Video Card(s) Sapphire Nitro+ RX 570 // Asus TUF RTX 2070
Storage Samsung 840 250Gb // SX8200 480GB
Display(s) LG 22EA53VQ // Philips 275M QHD
Case NZXT Phantom 410 Black/Orange // Tecware Forge M
Power Supply Corsair CXM500w // CM MWE 600w
9w 1.2Ghz single core processor? But Atom 330 eats only 8w and is dual core at 1.6Ghz. Unless Acer gives it a big battery, I don't see how this is going to win any battles against the Atom. Perhaps the HD 4225 graphics is going to make this a clear winner.
 
Joined
Oct 1, 2006
Messages
4,883 (0.76/day)
Location
Hong Kong
Processor Core i7-12700k
Motherboard Z690 Aero G D4
Cooling Custom loop water, 3x 420 Rad
Video Card(s) RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming
Storage Plextor M10P 2TB
Display(s) InnoCN 27M2V
Case Thermaltake Level 20 XT
Audio Device(s) Soundblaster AE-5 Plus
Power Supply FSP Aurum PT 1200W
Software Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
9w 1.2Ghz single core processor? But Atom 330 eats only 8w and is dual core at 1.6Ghz. Unless Acer gives it a big battery, I don't see how this is going to win any battles against the Atom. Perhaps the HD 4225 graphics is going to make this a clear winner.
The thing is the Atom dual core are no faster than a 3Ghz-ish Pentium D ;)
Cool'n Quiet also allows a lower multi than SpeedStep.
 
Joined
Feb 19, 2009
Messages
1,151 (0.21/day)
Location
I live in Norway
Processor R9 5800x3d | R7 3900X | 4800H | 2x Xeon gold 6142
Motherboard Asrock X570M | AB350M Pro 4 | Asus Tuf A15
Cooling Air | Air | duh laptop
Memory 64gb G.skill SniperX @3600 CL16 | 128gb | 32GB | 192gb
Video Card(s) RTX 4080 |Quadro P5000 | RTX2060M
Storage Many drives
Display(s) M32Q,AOC 27" 144hz something.
Case Jonsbo D41
Power Supply Corsair RM850x
Mouse g502 Lightspeed
Keyboard G913 tkl
Software win11, proxmox
Benchmark Scores 33000FS, 16300 TS. Lappy, 7000 TS.
9w 1.2Ghz single core processor? But Atom 330 eats only 8w and is dual core at 1.6Ghz. Unless Acer gives it a big battery, I don't see how this is going to win any battles against the Atom. Perhaps the HD 4225 graphics is going to make this a clear winner.

It should be said that a K8 A64 1ghz can be up to 7 times faster than a singlecore atom with HT @ 1.6ghz.

K10 2nd gen is 25% faster than K8 ? or more, and the ht speeds and NB speeds over K8 contribute aswell.

i think k10 rocks atom, still costs more to make but its faster.
 

Fourstaff

Moderator
Staff member
Joined
Nov 29, 2009
Messages
10,020 (1.91/day)
Location
Home
System Name Orange! // ItchyHands
Processor 3570K // 10400F
Motherboard ASRock z77 Extreme4 // TUF Gaming B460M-Plus
Cooling Stock // Stock
Memory 2x4Gb 1600Mhz CL9 Corsair XMS3 // 2x8Gb 3200 Mhz XPG D41
Video Card(s) Sapphire Nitro+ RX 570 // Asus TUF RTX 2070
Storage Samsung 840 250Gb // SX8200 480GB
Display(s) LG 22EA53VQ // Philips 275M QHD
Case NZXT Phantom 410 Black/Orange // Tecware Forge M
Power Supply Corsair CXM500w // CM MWE 600w
I think I am overestimating the power of an Atom processor.
 
Joined
Oct 1, 2006
Messages
4,883 (0.76/day)
Location
Hong Kong
Processor Core i7-12700k
Motherboard Z690 Aero G D4
Cooling Custom loop water, 3x 420 Rad
Video Card(s) RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming
Storage Plextor M10P 2TB
Display(s) InnoCN 27M2V
Case Thermaltake Level 20 XT
Audio Device(s) Soundblaster AE-5 Plus
Power Supply FSP Aurum PT 1200W
Software Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
I think I am overestimating the power of an Atom processor.
The Atom is build purely for battery life, and pretty much everything modern is faster clock for clock.
 
Joined
May 19, 2007
Messages
7,662 (1.24/day)
Location
c:\programs\kitteh.exe
Processor C2Q6600 @ 1.6 GHz
Motherboard Anus PQ5
Cooling ACFPro
Memory GEiL2 x 1 GB PC2 6400
Video Card(s) MSi 4830 (RIP)
Storage Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB Perpendicular Recording
Display(s) Dell 17'
Case El Cheepo
Audio Device(s) 7.1 Onboard
Power Supply Corsair TX750
Software MCE2K5
is this the new congo platform? or is sucessor? or a one off?
 
Joined
Sep 8, 2009
Messages
1,048 (0.20/day)
Location
Porto
Processor Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro
Cooling AiO 240mm
Memory 2x 32GB Kingston Fury Beast 3600MHz CL18
Video Card(s) Radeon RX 6900XT Reference (amd.com)
Storage O.S.: 256GB SATA | 2x 1TB SanDisk SSD SATA Data | Games: 1TB Samsung 970 Evo
Display(s) LG 34" UWQHD
Audio Device(s) X-Fi XtremeMusic + Gigaworks SB750 7.1 THX
Power Supply XFX 850W
Mouse Logitech G502 Wireless
VR HMD Lenovo Explorer
Software Windows 10 64bit
Single core 1.2GHz is a bit disappointing, but the RV620 IGP overcomes the need for a dedicated video processor. It does two 1080p streams at the same time.

Plus, when the browsers start using GPU hardware acceleration, this platform should be a lot faster than the Atom.


I think this Aspire is supposed to fight the Atom machines in the low-cost netbooks, and not the CULV Core series in UMPCs.



is this the new congo platform? or is sucessor? or a one off?
Congo is the old platform. It uses the old 65nm Athlon 64s and the Radeon 3200 IGP (it's my Ferrari One's platform).

This is the Nile platform. It features a 45nm Athlon II core codenamed Geneva (L3 cache-less) with expectedly lower idle power consumption.

The problem with the old 64nm is that there's no Cool&Quiet. My Athlon Neo L310 clocks at 1.2GHz constantly, so the power consumption is too high most of the time.

I hope I can replace my L310 for a dual-core Geneva, eventually. I bet it would bring more performance and a lot more battery time.
 
Last edited:

X-TeNDeR

New Member
Joined
Oct 14, 2007
Messages
110 (0.02/day)
Location
Sharpening The Underdog's Teeth
Processor AMD Athlon II X4 630 Propus C2 (2.8GHz) 95w
Motherboard Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 (AMD 890GX/SB850)
Cooling Scythe Yasya+MX-3, 3x140mm+1x120mm case fans
Memory Mushkin 2x2gb DDR3 1600MHz 6-8-6-24 1.65v
Video Card(s) Club3D Radeon HD 4850 512mb (Stock Fan+MX-3)
Storage WD 1TB SATA3 + WD MyBook 1TB ext+Toshiba 160gb ext
Display(s) LG W2486L '24 FHD Led 1920x1080
Case Lancool Dragonlord K62R1 (AMD Edition)
Audio Device(s) ASUS Xonar DX+Microlab X16 2.1+Senn 448 'Phones
Power Supply Seasonic M12II-620 80+ Bronze Modular
Software Micro$oft Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
I'm glad to see AMD is expanding into Netbooks. power consumption is a bit high but if the performance is good, this can be a nice package (with the GPU).
I think this should be priced competitively in order to roll the platform in the long run.
 

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~
Joined
Apr 20, 2007
Messages
23,313 (3.77/day)
Location
London,UK
System Name Codename: Icarus Mk.VI
Processor Intel 8600k@Stock -- pending tuning
Motherboard Asus ROG Strixx Z370-F
Cooling CPU: BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 {1xCorsair ML120 Pro|5xML140 Pro}
Memory 32GB XPG Gammix D10 {2x16GB}
Video Card(s) ASUS Dual Radeon™ RX 6700 XT OC Edition
Storage Samsung 970 Evo 512GB SSD (Boot)|WD SN770 (Gaming)|2x 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300|2x 2TB Crucial BX500
Display(s) LG GP850-B
Case Corsair 760T (White)
Audio Device(s) Yamaha RX-V573|Speakers: JBL Control One|Auna 300-CN|Wharfedale Diamond SW150
Power Supply Corsair AX760
Mouse Logitech G900
Keyboard Duckyshine Dead LED(s) III
Software Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
I think this comes after Intel announced that they were temporarily halting production of ULVs & netbook processors (N280, N450 etc etc etc) after the how slow the market was to pick up the whole netbook storm
 
Joined
Oct 2, 2004
Messages
13,791 (1.94/day)
Ppl think that "more cores" and "higher clock" necessarily mean higher performance.
However "more cores" means 1 real core and one virtual one through HT feature. And higher clock doesn't mean much if it's using in-order processing opposed to out of order one probably used in AMD. I can say safely that AMD's 1,2GHz will beat Atom N270 class Intel CPU's easily.
 
Joined
May 4, 2009
Messages
1,970 (0.36/day)
Location
Bulgaria
System Name penguin
Processor R7 5700G
Motherboard Asrock B450M Pro4
Cooling Some CM tower cooler that will fit my case
Memory 4 x 8GB Kingston HyperX Fury 2666MHz
Video Card(s) IGP
Storage ADATA SU800 512GB
Display(s) 27' LG
Case Zalman
Audio Device(s) stock
Power Supply Seasonic SS-620GM
Software win10
Atom uses an in-order architecture, so even tho it has HT and more cores, it doesn't provide as much performance as a modern out of order processor. It can be faster but only under the right circumstances...
 

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~
Joined
Apr 20, 2007
Messages
23,313 (3.77/day)
Location
London,UK
System Name Codename: Icarus Mk.VI
Processor Intel 8600k@Stock -- pending tuning
Motherboard Asus ROG Strixx Z370-F
Cooling CPU: BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 {1xCorsair ML120 Pro|5xML140 Pro}
Memory 32GB XPG Gammix D10 {2x16GB}
Video Card(s) ASUS Dual Radeon™ RX 6700 XT OC Edition
Storage Samsung 970 Evo 512GB SSD (Boot)|WD SN770 (Gaming)|2x 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300|2x 2TB Crucial BX500
Display(s) LG GP850-B
Case Corsair 760T (White)
Audio Device(s) Yamaha RX-V573|Speakers: JBL Control One|Auna 300-CN|Wharfedale Diamond SW150
Power Supply Corsair AX760
Mouse Logitech G900
Keyboard Duckyshine Dead LED(s) III
Software Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Ppl think that "more cores" and "higher clock" necessarily mean higher performance.
However "more cores" means 1 real core and one virtual one through HT feature. And higher clock doesn't mean much if it's using in-order processing opposed to out of order one probably used in AMD. I can say safely that AMD's 1,2GHz will beat Atom N270 class Intel CPU's easily.


Even so - that performance comes at a price. AMDs 'Nile' platform (the one used in this Acer netbook here) has a TDP of 9w compared to 2.5w on a N270, Atom's performance is a little slow n sluggish - but on the other hand your netbook can average 6-8hours between charges. & being a netbook, performance isnt top priority. AMD would probably struggle to hit 4hrs tops not bad but it falls extremely short of the Atom & who cares if Windows 7 takes 10 more seconds to boot up when the battery lasts 8hours??
 
Joined
May 4, 2009
Messages
1,970 (0.36/day)
Location
Bulgaria
System Name penguin
Processor R7 5700G
Motherboard Asrock B450M Pro4
Cooling Some CM tower cooler that will fit my case
Memory 4 x 8GB Kingston HyperX Fury 2666MHz
Video Card(s) IGP
Storage ADATA SU800 512GB
Display(s) 27' LG
Case Zalman
Audio Device(s) stock
Power Supply Seasonic SS-620GM
Software win10
Even so - that performance comes at a price. AMDs 'Nile' platform (the one used in this Acer netbook here) has a TDP of 9w compared to 2.5w on a N270, Atom's performance is a little slow n sluggish - but on the other hand your netbook can average 6-8hours between charges. & being a netbook, performance isnt top priority. AMD would probably struggle to hit 4hrs tops not bad but it falls extremely short of the Atom & who cares if Windows 7 takes 10 more seconds to boot up when the battery lasts 8hours??

You may be right, but don't forget the total platform power envelope too. The 65nm mobile amd parts failed miserably in the battery department, let's hope that these do better.
 
Joined
Oct 2, 2004
Messages
13,791 (1.94/day)
And how much watts does chipset eat in each case? We all know 945GS is far from low wattage one. Plus, AMD based netbook is more like a ULV version with far more muscle in general.
DDR3 and HD4000 series GPU ?
 

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~
Joined
Apr 20, 2007
Messages
23,313 (3.77/day)
Location
London,UK
System Name Codename: Icarus Mk.VI
Processor Intel 8600k@Stock -- pending tuning
Motherboard Asus ROG Strixx Z370-F
Cooling CPU: BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 {1xCorsair ML120 Pro|5xML140 Pro}
Memory 32GB XPG Gammix D10 {2x16GB}
Video Card(s) ASUS Dual Radeon™ RX 6700 XT OC Edition
Storage Samsung 970 Evo 512GB SSD (Boot)|WD SN770 (Gaming)|2x 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300|2x 2TB Crucial BX500
Display(s) LG GP850-B
Case Corsair 760T (White)
Audio Device(s) Yamaha RX-V573|Speakers: JBL Control One|Auna 300-CN|Wharfedale Diamond SW150
Power Supply Corsair AX760
Mouse Logitech G900
Keyboard Duckyshine Dead LED(s) III
Software Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
cant find nothing about chipset powerconsumption yet. but according to wiki - Geneva is supposed to be dual core...

Nile platform (2010)

AMD Ultrathin Platform planned for 1Q 2010, as the third AMD mobile platform targeting the ultra-portable notebook market. It will feature the 45nm Athlon Neo X2 Geneva CPU with 2 cores
 
Joined
May 4, 2009
Messages
1,970 (0.36/day)
Location
Bulgaria
System Name penguin
Processor R7 5700G
Motherboard Asrock B450M Pro4
Cooling Some CM tower cooler that will fit my case
Memory 4 x 8GB Kingston HyperX Fury 2666MHz
Video Card(s) IGP
Storage ADATA SU800 512GB
Display(s) 27' LG
Case Zalman
Audio Device(s) stock
Power Supply Seasonic SS-620GM
Software win10

Necrofire

New Member
Joined
Nov 1, 2007
Messages
585 (0.10/day)
System Name Chuck
Processor Core i5-2500k @ 4.5Ghz
Motherboard msi P67A-C43
Cooling hyper 212, 2 120mm fans
Memory 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Video Card(s) XFX 6870
Storage 60GB sata3 sandforce ssd, 1TB samsung hdd
Display(s) Yamakazi Catleap
Case Possibly Antec, not sure
Audio Device(s) Onboard
Power Supply Rosewill 600W
Except that loading programs and OS is more HDD speed dependent, rather than CPU speed.
The few exceptions I can see where a faster cpu helps is javascript performance, and encoding.

If the user can get control of the cpu's multi and voltage, then I would definitely make that my new laptop.

I'm sure we can all agree that clock for clock, this is much faster than the Atom.
 
Joined
Oct 1, 2006
Messages
4,883 (0.76/day)
Location
Hong Kong
Processor Core i7-12700k
Motherboard Z690 Aero G D4
Cooling Custom loop water, 3x 420 Rad
Video Card(s) RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming
Storage Plextor M10P 2TB
Display(s) InnoCN 27M2V
Case Thermaltake Level 20 XT
Audio Device(s) Soundblaster AE-5 Plus
Power Supply FSP Aurum PT 1200W
Software Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
Even so - that performance comes at a price. AMDs 'Nile' platform (the one used in this Acer netbook here) has a TDP of 9w compared to 2.5w on a N270, Atom's performance is a little slow n sluggish - but on the other hand your netbook can average 6-8hours between charges. & being a netbook, performance isnt top priority. AMD would probably struggle to hit 4hrs tops not bad but it falls extremely short of the Atom & who cares if Windows 7 takes 10 more seconds to boot up when the battery lasts 8hours??
The thing is we don't know what kind of Idle power these thing will be in.
Since Netbook CPUs and GPUs spends most of the time in Idle, and the fact that the Atom will work much harder doing the same task as a K10.

For example, a K10 will have no problem rendering most web pages in its Idle Clock, but the Atom on the other hand might be running at Full Speed. ;)
 

Completely Bonkers

New Member
Joined
Feb 6, 2007
Messages
2,576 (0.41/day)
Processor Mysterious Engineering Prototype
Motherboard Intel 865
Cooling Custom block made in workshop
Memory Corsair XMS 2GB
Video Card(s) FireGL X3-256
Display(s) 1600x1200 SyncMaster x 2 = 3200x1200
Software Windows 2003
For example, a K10 will have no problem rendering most web pages in its Idle Clock, but the Atom on the other hand might be running at Full Speed. ;)

When a processor is "idle", it does nothing.

I think you mean: if the Atom takes 1 second to do something at full speed, and if the K10 can do the same task in just 0.3 seconds, then while the Atom is finishing its task, the K10 can idle for 0.7 seconds. So it might be more efficient on average.

However, the K10 certainly does not render web pages while idle.
 
Joined
May 4, 2009
Messages
1,970 (0.36/day)
Location
Bulgaria
System Name penguin
Processor R7 5700G
Motherboard Asrock B450M Pro4
Cooling Some CM tower cooler that will fit my case
Memory 4 x 8GB Kingston HyperX Fury 2666MHz
Video Card(s) IGP
Storage ADATA SU800 512GB
Display(s) 27' LG
Case Zalman
Audio Device(s) stock
Power Supply Seasonic SS-620GM
Software win10
my mind renders naked pictures when idle, why can't the K10 ? :D
 
Joined
Apr 14, 2008
Messages
1,777 (0.30/day)
Location
South Australia
System Name QUACK
Processor Intel i7 2600K (3.4 GHz, 8 threads)
Motherboard Asus P67P8-V3
Cooling Xigmatek Balder 120mm (4x120,1x140mm case)
Memory Patriot 2 Viper Sector 5, 8GB DDR3 1600 MHz
Video Card(s) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 4GB
Storage 1x Samsung EVO 850 (500GB) SSD, 1x Fujitsu 256GB SSD
Display(s) Dell Ultrasharp U2311h 23" (so sexy)
Case CoolerMaster Gladiator RC-600
Audio Device(s) Onboard 5.1
Power Supply Antec 850w with yellow racing stripes
Software Windows 7 HP 64 bit
And as far as I know, the majority of the power consumption in an Intel Atom netbook comes from the actual chipset itself; the current 945GS doesn't have a very good power envelope, and has little in the way of power saving features.
I suspect if AMD managed to get the chipset on this to use very little amounts of power, then they might be able to draw even with the Atom platform.
 
Joined
Oct 1, 2006
Messages
4,883 (0.76/day)
Location
Hong Kong
Processor Core i7-12700k
Motherboard Z690 Aero G D4
Cooling Custom loop water, 3x 420 Rad
Video Card(s) RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming
Storage Plextor M10P 2TB
Display(s) InnoCN 27M2V
Case Thermaltake Level 20 XT
Audio Device(s) Soundblaster AE-5 Plus
Power Supply FSP Aurum PT 1200W
Software Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
For example, a K10 will have no problem rendering most web pages in its Idle Clock, but the Atom on the other hand might be running at Full Speed. ;)
When a processor is "idle", it does nothing.

I think you mean: if the Atom takes 1 second to do something at full speed, and if the K10 can do the same task in just 0.3 seconds, then while the Atom is finishing its task, the K10 can idle for 0.7 seconds. So it might be more efficient on average.

However, the K10 certainly does not render web pages while idle.
If you read properly, you will see that I said "Idle Clock".
That means that the K10 don't even need to leave its lowest power state. (lowest besides things like C6 or sleep state)
Even my Turion Ultra (based on the K8) Notebook renders pages fine with at 525Mhz, and yes it very rarely need to even go to the next state.
 
Last edited:
Joined
Sep 8, 2009
Messages
1,048 (0.20/day)
Location
Porto
Processor Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro
Cooling AiO 240mm
Memory 2x 32GB Kingston Fury Beast 3600MHz CL18
Video Card(s) Radeon RX 6900XT Reference (amd.com)
Storage O.S.: 256GB SATA | 2x 1TB SanDisk SSD SATA Data | Games: 1TB Samsung 970 Evo
Display(s) LG 34" UWQHD
Audio Device(s) X-Fi XtremeMusic + Gigaworks SB750 7.1 THX
Power Supply XFX 850W
Mouse Logitech G502 Wireless
VR HMD Lenovo Explorer
Software Windows 10 64bit
Even so - that performance comes at a price. AMDs 'Nile' platform (the one used in this Acer netbook here) has a TDP of 9w compared to 2.5w on a N270, Atom's performance is a little slow n sluggish - but on the other hand your netbook can average 6-8hours between charges.

TDP isn't that important here. That stands for maximum consumption and it's used to determine the heat dissipation, not the battery life under "low usage".

Low idle consumption and voltage/clock speed scaling are far more important.


Just look at the battery life with CULV processors.
Many sub-notebooks with dual-core CULVs get as many "battery marks" as Atom machines, using the same 6-cell batteries.

The Acer Timeline 1810T has a 1.2GHz Core 2 Duo, a more powerfull GPU than the Atom's 945G or GMA3150 and it will reach 8 hours with normal use.

Again, these Athlon Neo CPUs aren't meant to face the Atom machines. They're supposed to give the CULVs a run for their money as a platform, and they will thanks to the IGP.


The Atom wasn't meant to be in laptops to begin with. The architecture is supposed to invade the ARM's market of cellphones, portable media players and MIDs. That's why Intel sold the XScale division to Marvell in 2004 -> they're off to fight ARM in its own game.
 
Top