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Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

By Andy Smith April 2, 2008, 2:01 AM PDT

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Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

Atom processor with the Intel System Controller Hub

Atom processor with the Intel System Controller Hub

Intel unveils its Atom processor (formerly known as Silverthorne) for MID or mobile Internet devices at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. Intel says the Atom chip and the Centrino Atom version use about 3 watts of power compared to 35-watt chips that are now found in notebooks.rnrn

“This is as important to Intel as the launch of the Pentium in the mid-1990s”, Intel chief executive Paul Otellini said in a video played during an IDF keynote.rnrn

Here is the Atom processor with the Intel System Controller Hub. For more information read Larry Dignan’s blog.rnrn

Photo credit: Intel

Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

Atom wafer

Atom wafer

The Atom processor initially comes in five variants ranging from 800MHz to 1.86GHz. Here is the Atom processor wafer.

Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

The Atom

The Atom

The Atom processor package.

Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

Atom wafer

Atom wafer

Here’s the Atom wafer compared to the eye of a needle.

Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

Aigo

Aigo

Intel showed off several MID devices, bigger than a handheld but smaller than a notebook, lined up to use the Atom chips.

Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

BenQ

BenQ

Mobile Internet device run by the Atom chip by BenQ.

Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

Clarion

Clarion

Concept by Clarion

Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

Compal

Compal

This concept by Compal is based on Intel’s Centrino Atom processor.

Gallery: Intel’s Atom and tiny devices to fit

Electrobit

Electrobit

Another concept–this time by Electrobit.

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