Intel to offer Dual Core Atom Chips for Netbooks

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010...10:41 pm

Intel already offers some dual core Atom processors (like the Atom330) but so far they have been made available only to the Nettop market. A few companies, like Asus, have flaunted Inte’s strict ‘guidelines’ and crammed the Atom 330 desktop processor into notebooks but Intel hasn’t officially launched a dual core chip specifically designed for netbooks until now.

But Intel CEO Paul Otellini says the company is going to launch a new dual core Atom processor for netbooks in the second quarter of 2010. The news doesn’t come as much of a surprise – there were rumours already last month of a new Intel Atom N500 dual core netbook chip, but it’s good to see it officially from Intel now.