Intel's first dual-core processor Atom began to sell

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Sept. 22, single-core Atom era is about to end, Intel announced that from Monday the first dual-core Atom processors was sold.

Atom 330 will start selling this week.

Intel in August at the IDF General Assembly, said this month from the sale of dual-core version of the Atom.

Atom power-saving feature, the main direction for the network notebook market. At present, sales of Intel Atom N230 for the single-core processor chip.

Dual-core version of the Atom is the power of 8 watts, N230, only 4 watts, while the ASUS easy for PC and Acer Aspire, and other portable version of the Atom lowest power consumption of only 2 watts.

Atom dual-core clock frequency of 1.6GHz, 2M cache, and support for DDR2 667MHz memory.

Intel said it would chip in the Intel 945GC Express Group Board as well as the Little Falls2 suite of products with sales of dual-core version of the Atom.

Intel spokesman cautioned that: "Atom dual-core notebook product is not for the network."

But computer makers will prefer to use their own dual-core Atom, because the 8-watt power consumption compared with the general book network processor or 35 watts of power, many small. Another reason is price, the dual-core Atom 1000 the wholesale price of only 40 U.S. dollars, other than the Intel dual-core processor a lot cheaper.

It is reported that Britain Tranquil PC vendors have booked dual-core Atom, to prepare its application server among the family.