Intel CEO announced recently that the Atom chip, the work horse for netbooks, will be upgraded to a dual core version. Typically Atom N450 at 1.66 GHz and Atom N470 at 1.83 GHz are used in the netbooks. Though the netbooks are meant to be used for web browsing and may be some basic productivity applications. As is usual there is pressure for increasing the performance. This announcement seems to be aimed at that demand. However the demand for netbooks seems to have flattened out.
Now the issue is whether one needs a more powerful netbook, making if more like a regular laptop or it will merge into a new kind of device that is a smartphone, a tablet a book reader all rolled into one! Then the question is do we need a dual core Atom when regular machines have many multi core processor versions already! Read about the announcement here.
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