Intel unveiled a trio of new Atom processors and a new chipset today. The new Intel chips will enable hardware vendors to create smaller, cooler, more power efficient netbooks and nettops (the desktop equivalent of a netbook).

The three Atom processors include Intel's integrated graphics functionality in the CPU, as well as the memory controller functionality, which eliminates the need for one of the two chips that make up the traditional motherboard chipset. The new Atom CPU's are 60 percent smaller than their predecessors, and consume 20 percent less power--50 percent for the nettops processors.

The new processors, dubbed Pineview by Intel, and the NM10 Express Motherboard chipset, combine to form the Pinetrail platform. It also makes Intel the first to combine graphics processing with an x86 CPU--technically speaking. The resulting Pineview CPU and Pinetrail platform are not really comparable to what Intel has planned for the recently scrapped Larrabee Project, or to what AMD is working on for its Fusion processor.

ntel atom processor uses nano technology to measure very-very little of the other Intel processors. so eat a little power, little heat, too. But can a good performance. As good as good as intel-atom is still far less than dual core. intel atom aren't recommended to use Vista. Create you who like a small laptop, find a Laptop or PC use intel atom.

And It is smaller than you have thought.

Atom CPUs are surprising for more than one reason: they have modern functions (EM64T, SSSE3, etc.) grafted onto an older architecture The Atom is the first in-order x86 since the Pentium. Power management and fabrication costs are the two imperatives Intel seems to have been guided by, at the expense (with no attempt made to hide it) of performance. So, no, don’t expect a competitor to Core 2 Duo.

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