Intel Atom Background
Intel Atom is new the new range of processors from Intel.
These processors are out to replace the older Celeron brand by Intel for several ranges of x86 CPU targeted at low cost personal computers. These processors run all IA32 computer applications,but their performance is lower when compared to other higher-priced Intel CPU brands.
• Some Tech Specs
Produced- From April 1998 to present
Common manufacturer Intel
Socket(s) LGA 775,Slot1, Socket 370,478
FSB speeds- 66 MHz to 800 MT/s
Max.CPUclock - 266 MHz to3.6GHz
Instruction set- x86-64,x86
Microarchitecture- NetBurst, Cor,P6
Min. feature size- 250 nm to 65 nm
Intel Atom
The Intel Atom is Intel's line of low-power, low-cost and low-performance x86 and x86-64
microprocessors. Atom, with code-name's of Silverthorne and Diamondville, was first announced on March 2, 2008.
The Intel Atom processor is the smallest processor ever from Intel and has been designed with the world's most tiny transistors and manufactured on industries latest 45NM High-K technology. The Intel Atom processors are designed for simple,netbooks and nettops at affordable rates netbooks and nettops offer high device mobility for a better experience and longer battery life in case of netbooks.They are strong pretty rugged and small and sleek in design, and offers freedom and extension of being wireless.
Great for Internet, these devices and are an affordable option for, photo,video, education and viewing, social networking,e-mail, messaging, browsing,voice over IP and numerous other Internet applications.
• Some Tech Specs-
Core name(s) - Diamondville,Silverthorne
Package(s) - 441-ball μFCBGA
Produced - 2008–present
Instruction set - SSE, SSE3,SSE2,x86-64,x86,MMX
Common manufacturer(s) - Intel
Max. CPU clock - 800 MHz to 2 GHz
FSB speeds - 400 MHz to 667 MHz
Cores - 1, 2
Min. feature size - 45nm
Why Intel Atom??
Intel Atom is one of the most power efficient processor in the world.
It is Designed for decreasing power consumption,Atom has many features present in Core 2 processors for lower power consumption such as Dynamic cache sizing & Enhanced Speed Step technology. The processors also utilize many new features and techniques - "clock gating" which switches off system clock and changes it to idle logic blocks, CMOS Front Side Bus and others for energy efficiency, As the result, the Atom CPU have a much lower Thermal Design Power (TDP) than previous generation of low power processors.
All Atom processors are manufactured in small form factor I.E. 22mm x 22mm for all and 13mm x 14mm for the Z series.
With file sharing and higher system up times on the rise these days you can't afford to keep a power guzzling Quad core / Core i7 P.C.s Turned on for hours or days or weeks.. They consume a lot of power and there is hardly any need for the huge processing power. Its not green at all .You can instead assemble a cheap Intel atom system and and run it at 5to10% of the power needed by mainstream systems.Plus these is less need of space considering the itx form factor which is available now.
You can recover the price of your hardware by the power cost saving in a couple of year or even less for that matter.
Here's a list of Atom Processors
Intel Atom CPU chart
The chart below includes information on almost all Atom microprocessors.
Intel Atom processors:
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| Model↑
| Core
name
| Freq.
(MHz)
| FSB
(MHz)
| L2
cache
(KB)
| Cores
| TDP
(Watt)
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| Core
Voltage
(V)
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| Z550
| Silverthorne
| 2000
| 533
| 512
| 1
| 2.4 / 2.64
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| 1.1
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| Z540
| Silverthorne
| 1867
| 533
| 512
| 1
| 2.4 / 2.64
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| 1.1
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| Z530P
| Silverthorne
| 1600
| 533
| 512
| 1
| 2 / 2.2
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| 1.1
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| Z530
| Silverthorne
| 1600
| 533
| 512
| 1
| 2 / 2.2
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| 1.1
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| Z520PT
| Silverthorne
| 1333
| 533
| 512
| 1
| 2 / 2.2
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| 0.9 - 1.1
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| Z520
| Silverthorne
| 1333
| 533
| 512
| 1
| 2 / 2.2
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| 1.1
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| Z515
| Silverthorne
| 800
| 400
| 512
| 1
| 0.65
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| 1.1
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| Z510PT
| Silverthorne
| 1100
| 400
| 512
| 1
| 2 / 2.2
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| 0.9 - 1.1
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| Z510P
| Silverthorne
| 1100
| 400
| 512
| 1
| 2 / 2.2
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| 1.1
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| Z510
| Silverthorne
| 1100
| 400
| 512
| 1
| 2
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| 1.1
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| Z500
| Silverthorne
| 800
| 400
| 512
| 1
| 0.65
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| 0.85
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| N280
| Diamondville
| 1667
| 667
| 512
| 1
| 2.5
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| 0.9 - 1.1625
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| N270
| Diamondville
| 1600
| 533
| 512
| 1
| 2.5
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| 1.1
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| 330
| Diamondville
| 1600
| 533
| 1024
| 2
| 8
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| 1.1
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| 230
| Diamondville
| 1600
| 533
| 512
| 1
| 4
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| 0.7 - 1.2
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