With the recent release of the Pine Trail platform with the new Intel Atom N450 processor, there has curiously been no news on the other Atom, the Z-series, which powers many popular MIDs, netbooks, and UMPCs including the venerable Sony VAIO P and more recently the Fujitsu UH900/LOOX U. With no direct replacement on Intel’s roadmap and the Atom N450 being too large...

The date has been confirmed: you’ll be able to get your hands on the all-new Atom N450 line of netbooks from ASUS, Acer, Lenovo and MSI on January 11th, 2009. The new Atom netbook CPU was going to be here in December, but manufacturers have been holding off at Intel’s request. However, in an effort to not overshoot consumer demand, most vendors will only stock ‘conservative’...

Intel’s new CE4100 is a system-on-a-chip with a processor and graphics controller on a single chip built using a 45nm process. Oh yeah, and it’s built on the low power Atom processor core. The CE4100 is meant for set top boxes like cable boxes and Blu-ray players, not laptops. But it runs at clock speeds up to 1.2GHz and has FSB speeds of 200MHz to 400MHz while supporting...

This is an Atom N470, clocked at 1.83Ghz Intel expected to launch in the first quarter of 2010, probably after its launch at CES in January in Las Vegas. It remains a simple heart but the big difference ATOM processors that we know now it loads directly onto the same chip graphics chipset that we see in our current netbooks on a different chip. In the picture above an...