At the first glance, the machine pictured below looks like yet another Acer netbook with a useless glossy screen:
However, the device is interesting. The reason for this is the CPU – the macles blog reports the following:
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The Intel Atom N550 sports two cores, clocked at 1.5 GHz, with 512KB L2 cache each, and supports hyper threading, which results in four threads or virtual cores. It isn’t the first dual core Intel Atom, albeit the first intended for netbooks.
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Adding a second core improves responsiveness and general desktop performance, but it does not solve the main problem of the relatively slow Intel Atom. In fact performance is worse if an application isn’t multi-threaded, due to each core being clocked a bit lower than current single core Intel Atoms.
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This move obviously was motivated by AMD’s extremely attractive and low-cost processors for smallish devices (which tend to be faster, but consume more power) – let’s see what AMD does next.
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