Intel Atom rivals AMD

We have reached another chapter in the Intel-AMD war.

There can be no doubt about the success of Intel Atom, most new netbooks have an Atom processor, but that does not mean that there are no promising challenges: VIA Nano and NVIDIA Tegra equally remarkable "trying", the only question is whether they can take up the fight with Intel's marketing machine.

Intel Atom

AMD is also in the fight, the specifications of the hitherto unknown processor are as follows:

• 64-bit instruction set
• single-core, K8 microarchitecture
• 65nm manufacturing technology (likely)
• HyperTransport 800 MHz
• DDR2-400 MHz memory controller
• 256 KB L2 cache
• 1 GHz clock
• 812-pin BGA housing
• 27 × 27 mm
• 8 W TDP

Source: ComputerBase