Intel may be on top for the ‘traditional’ processors used in desktops, laptops, servers, but the huge, up and coming market in smartphones and tablets primarily used chips from a  company called ARM. Of course, Intel is not going to take that lying down, and they have plans to change that.

Intel is pushing forward in the low power space with designs that are intended for use in tablets, smartphones, and other low power devices. Intel CTO Justin Rattner told Reuters that the current Moorestown chips are on par with ARM-based chips when it comes to standby power, and that the next set of chips will rival ARM chips on active power. After that, Rattner says, the generation after that will pull ahead of ARM.

Those sound like fighting works.  We’re happy to see the competition!

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Earlier this week Intel announced a 1.5GHz dual core Atom N550 processor.  Since then, tons of new netbooks sporting the new chipset coming out of the woodwork.  One of them is the Asus  Eee PC 1015PEM.

Tech In Style reports that the Eee PC 1015PEM will support up to 2GB of DDR3 memory and be able to handle 720p HD video playback. The netbook will be available in red, black, white, and pink colors and should ship for about 349 Euros in Europe. That’s just over $440 US, but PC prices have a way of falling a bit once they hit US shores.

via  Netbook Italia

Starting today, the new Intel Atom D525 / D425 series processors are now available  for manufacturers to build netbooks and nettops.  Both these processors are clocked at 1.8GHz with the D525 being dual core and the D425 being single core. There is support for DDR3 RAM as well.

Two new netbooks have been announced with the dual core Atom D525 processor – The ASUS Eee PC 1215N and the ASUS Lamborghini VX6. The latest news is that the 1215N is coming in December and the VX6 in September.

Source: Intel via Engadget

The Intel Atom N550 processor is the first dual core Atom chip built specifically for netbooks. Intel only announced the chip at Computex 2010, and it isn’t out on the retail market yet, but the folks at Notebook Italia got a chance to spend a few minutes with a pre-release Asus netbook with an Atom N550 chip.  Theythey ran a simple benchmark to see how the computer stacked up against PCs with several other processors, which you can see in the graph above.

In short, the Atom N550 performed very well especially at multithreading capabilities thanks to it’s 2 cores which can run as many as 4 threads simultaneously. Using the file compression app 7Zip’s built-in benchmarking utility, Notebook Italia found that the 1.5GHz Atom N550 was twice as fast as a 1.66 Intel Atom N450 processor. It was also a little faster than systems with Intel Atom 330 and D510 desktop dual core processors.

So great news – let’s get those dual core netbooks on the street!

At the  Taipei show two years ago that Intel introduced the first Atom netbooks, and now, as expected, Intel is introducing the first dual-core Atom processors faimed at nebooks.  . While the details on the speeds and feeds of the new Pine Trail N series CPUs are being kept under wraps for now, we’ve been told that they’ll support DDR3 RAM and provide comparable performance to the dual-core desktop Atom processors, yet still maintain similar battery life to current netbooks. Intel still plans to keep these Atom chips in 10-inch systems, and told us that users will see the speed benefits in multitasking and browsing, rather than in HD playback and gaming.

But speed isn’t the only aspect Intel has looked at.  They’re also going to go on a serious diet. Intel also unveiled its new “Canoe Lake” innovation platform for netbooks, which is what’s behind that 14mm thick machine pictured above. The platform can support single- and dual-core Atom processors, but provides significant cooling to allow for 50 percent thinner systems. However, “Canoe Lake” is merely a reference guideline for other manufacturers to us.

Just yesterday we reported that Intel will officially launch dual core processors for netbooks. Today, Fudzilla reports that the company is suggesting that manufacturers sell netbooks with the new chips for between $349 and $399 USD. They’re also pressing for a new set of standard netbook specs, to include 1GB of DDR3 RAM, up to 32GB solid state disks, or 250GB hard drives, and 7 to 10.2 inch displays.

Intel is also suggesting that single core netbooks are priced at $249 and $349 USD (which they are already).  Fudzilla suggests that dual core netbooks could hit the streets in the third quarter of 2010.

Almost exactly a month ago we speculated on rumours of a new Intel Atom Dual Core processor for netbooks and now Fudzilla reports that the new chip will be called the Atom N550.  Reportedly, the Atom N550 will reportedly have a clock speed of 1.5GHz, 1MB of L2 cache, and two cores with support for hyperthreading.

Fudzilla says the TDP (or power consumption in laymans terms) will be 8.5 watts, which includes the CPU and integrated graphics and memory controller -that’s only a little more than the usage for the Intel Atom N450 and N470 single core chips .

The new chips will reportedly hit the streets in the third quarter of 2010.

Intel has officially unveiled a new line of low power processors designed for mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. Check out the PDF from Intel here.  The Z6xx series will use Intel’s 45nm technology, and 3D graphics and video capabilities.The chip has 512K of L2 cache, 24K of L1 Data and 32K instruction cache.  Intel says the Atom Z6xx series will support Google Android, MeeGo and Moblin Linux. Windows isn’t mentioned – but will Intel really produce a new Atom chip without Windows support (even if it is aimed at tablets & smartphones)?

There will be different versions of the Z6xx series chips, including a 1.5GHz version for handhelds and smartphones and a 1.9GHz version for tablets.  Furthermre, the chips will feature Intel GMA 600 graphics, with a 400MHz graphics core and support for hardware decoding of H.264, MPEG4 part 2, WMV, and VC1 video, as well as hardware support for encoding MPEG4 and H.264 video. GMA 600 also features OpenGL support for 3D graphics and supports internal displays with resolutions of 1024 x 600 or 1366 x 768 pixels.

Laptop Magazine reports that Intel is promising devices using this chipset will be able to last for up to 48 hours of continuous audio playback or 10 days of idle power. Video playback is another story, topping out at just 5 hours.

via UMPC Portal