What’s Intel Atom? Intel’s Atom is a basic moblie platform, including N270 CPU and 945GSE/ICH-7M chipset. N270 is a 1.60GHz/533MHz/512K L2 cache/Single Core/2 Threads small CPU. They developing under codename Diamondville.

What can Intel’s Atom do? According to Noury Al-Khaledy Intel’s manager of Atom division, the platform can let you surfing on net, or playing normal movies. Don’t expect the platform can have much power, it is only a 1.6GHz 512K L2 thingy. The small platform can run Win Vista Starter, WinXP, and Linux.

What intel gonna do is to make it a ultra mobile nettop, and make lots of money from it. According to PCGH, the price ranged from 199USD to 250USD.

AMD finally fixed the annoying TLB bug in their Phenoms and pushing it out again with stepping B3. Phenoms with B3 stepping will be called 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150. All of them will hit the market within two weeks, according to Digitimes.
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The little thing will cost you 30USD, but according to the manufacturer it it effective, can emit 10% heat out of the original cooler. It is a bottle of liquid about 5CC, you can clothing it on any cooler you want. When it is totally dryed, it can help cooler to spray out more heat by far-infard radiation. The full report is here. Will you buy this stuff?(if the price is lower)
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