Sunday, January 18, 2009

Intel Atom N280 coming this year

Intel is expected to launch their new Intel Atom N280 processor sometime this year.

This would enable PC manufacturers to offer a slightly more powerful netbooks.

Intel currently offers Atom N270 processor which powers most of the current generation netbooks available in the market.

The new processor Atom N280 would use the GN40 chipset and would offer a core frequency of 1.66GHz with a front side bus running at 667MHz.

Market analysts believe that the company would not launch more powerful editions of Intel Atom in the near future to avoid competing with the existing processor models.

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