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The Atom 330 CPU I was unfortunately unable to attend IDF, however I followed all the news carefully... and on August 20th I was very interested when I read "Intel lets slip first dual-core Atom" at the Register. As Intel had not released a lot of information, there were only a few interesting facts available, but they were more than enough to whet my appetite:
That is not a lot of information, but it turns out to be enough when it is combined with the information available from Intel on the current single core Atom 230 and 270 on Intel's web site, along with their microarchitecture overview, and the information provided by CPU-Z. The Atom N270 I reviewed in my Eee PC 901 review gave me the following information with CPU-Z:
Of course I also ran CPU-Z on the dual core Atom found on the D945GCLF2, and here's what I got: That's right!
What does this mean? The speculations were correct, the dual core Atom is just two Atom dies placed onto the same package! Of course as the Atom core is dual-threaded this means you will actually see four processor graphs in the Performance monitor.
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