IDF Shanghai 2008: Atom-Enabled Devices To Debut

A new processor for the ultra-mobile market is Intel's latest move to revolutionize mobility computing, from UMPCs to mobile Internet devices and even notebooks and desktops (er, "netbooks" and "net-tops"). While Atom (née Silverthorne) received its brand-new brand name recently, the family of tiny processors, which relies on 45nm technology just like the Penryn line of Core 2 Duo processors, will debut in devices on display at IDF in Shanghai in early April.

It's no secret that China has come a long way in a short time — from being a country known for manufacturing cheap products for export to being, potentially, the next great IT superpower. National Science Board figures show that in 1994 there were only seven U.S. companies doing research in China. Ten years later, that number had risen to more than 500. Gartner analysts James Popkin and Partha Iyengar wrote, in their 2007 book I.T. and the East, that the world "will witness the birth of a real IT superpower if government restrictions are loosened and the Chinese instinctive talent for entrepreneurialism continues to be encouraged."

It's against this backdrop that the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, April 2 and 3, 2008, takes on extra significance. China now supplies the talent, within the country, to conduct advanced research in chip design. At this year's IDF in Shanghai, Intel will provide an update on new technologies and features that enable devices with better performance, less power, more mobility, and lower cost.

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[illuminatusprimi1]

We are on the verge of at true technological LEAP in the next few years. Watch out folks! This is just the VERY beginning!

[nagarjun424]

NEAT!

[clarinervium]

Atom processor is so Smaaaalll... but the performance so Biggg... Go Intel, for the big leap!

[ICommentonVideo]

Atom processor + Nvidia Tegra 600 = Fastest mobile device EVER

[ICommentonVideo]

thing i dont like about macbook air is that the CD drive has to be external....

[Jayayess1190]

I might wait for that, but I start my first year of college in fall 2009, and I was hoping to have a laptop when I start. Maybe I'll just have to use my old Inspiron 9100 a little while longer (6 yrs!)... :)

[weeeee162]

why not just wait til later in 2009 for the 32nm processors n for westmere (the nehalem counterpart for 32nm processors) to come out

[Jayayess1190]

LOL, that is not obsolete. I am still using a Pentium 4! I will be upgrading next year when Nehalem is out.

Answer to your question: Yes Atom is only for mobile devices. The new Platform for laptops is Centrino 2 and it is launching in June.

[howboutdat1227]

damnit, i watch these vids and it makes me feel obselete lol, i only have a 65 nm core 2 duo, but this summer, when i make some money, i hope to buy myself a penryn!!! yay! and is the atom just a mobile?

[doverman2]

intel is simply amazing