Intel's Atom not just for Netbooks anymore

Intel 'piece of Netbook of principal support of S finds a house in desktop machines, underlined by recent advertisements of Hewlett-Packard and Acer.

The HP MediaSmart LX195 uses a processor of the atom 1.6GHz
(Credit: Hewlett-Packard)

Wednesday, the details emerged from the HP of 'waiter LX195, a waiter at the house of S MediaSmart packing 1.6GHz a processor of atom 230 that �S.A. evaluated with $400 with 1GB of memory and a ordering of the hard drive 640GB. Up to now, the HP had employed Intel Celeron and Advanced Micro Devices � processors of Sempron. (Note: the update adds Intel Celeron.)

Earlier this month, Acer unrolled Acer AspireRevo, small, luisante box which increases the atom with tiddlywinks of ion of Nvidia to amplify the execution of graphs. One expects that this has the price shown clearly below $300 for some models.

Asus was one of the first to highlight a desktop machine Atom-based head-swivelling--the box of Eee, which was updated recently with graphs of ATI.

By design, the atom is a processor power-treasurer and, consequently, slower than Intel 'the traditional architecture of piece of core 2 of S. the HP, for example, lance its waiter of MediaSmart like hub of storage, than typically the doesn 't require much punch of treatment. And the atom is cheap--atom 230 is $29, while the comparative pieces of Celeron are approximately $34 but draw much more power. And the processors of office of traditional duet of core 2 start to approximately $110.

Intel maintained a long time that the atom has a place in so-called Nettops and, last year, highlighted atom 330 of duel-core specifically for this market.

This strategy was validated this week with Ta�peh, where the ASRock manufacturer of mother chart showed a desktop machine with a processor of atom 330 of duel-core and tiddlywinks of ion of Nvidia. One expects that also Asus updates the line of box of Eee with a processor of atom of duel-core.