The Atom platform of today consists of three chips. An Atom Silverthorne or Diamondville CPU, Intel’s 945 chipset and the coupled southbridge, often ICH7M. Despite the energy efficient CPU consuming only 8W (Atom 330) the maximal power consumption of the platform is still 33W, which is anything by optimal relative to the performance. Soon Intel’s new dual-core Atom platform will come and the Pine Trail platform can do without active cooling and consume only 15W.
Atom D510 looks to become one of the first dual-core Pineview CPUs of Intel’s new Atom family, with two 1.66GHz cores, 512KB L2 cache and HyperThreading support it all adds up to 13W. This might seem like a lot until you realize that the new Pineview Atom processors also house Intel’s integrated graphics circuit previously found in the chipset.
Intel hopes to start shipping the D510MO ITX platform in Q1 2010 and code-named Mount Olive the price tag will be around 90€.
At the same time it will release a single-core Pineview Atom CPU, Atom D410, also operating at 1.66GHz.
