Intel Atom N280 Offers Slight Performance Increase

When it comes to computer processors consumers are used to paying more for each new generation. However, we are also used to seeing some serious improvement in performance from generation to generation as well.

It looks like Intel doesn't have big plans on increasing the performance of its Atom processors, though it does have plans to increase the price. I guess it makes sense for Intel when you think about it; they want us to buy their more expensive processors in full notebooks not the cheap, low margin netbooks.

Intel's latest Atom processor the N280 will carry a price premium of up to 39% more than the N270 netbooks do today. The catch is that the performance of the processor only increases marginally. You get a whopping 60Mhz more on the clock speed, new graphics, and a 667Mhz front side bus compared to the N270's 533MHz. The real benefit is that the N280 is supposed to be more power efficient. One of the first netbooks to use the new N280 will be the Asus 1004DN.

Via Laptop Mag

What Others Say about This

The Impact Of IT / ITES On Real Estate In Bangalore

Like this story, share it with millions of investors on M3 Like this story, share it with millions of investors on M3 The Information Technology sector has a special significance for India, because Indias competence in this sector has made it a net expor ...
Full article at: Moneycontrol.com  More like this  11 hours ago

A new way to do firmware development on programmable devices

In this Product How-To article Mark Saunders describes a new methodology for doing firmware development for the Cypress’ Arm-based Programmable SoCs, using the company’s PSoC Creator in combination with Arm’s uVision IDE. Programmable devices are really ...
Full article at: My ESM  More like this  5 days ago, 3:45pm CST

Don't miss ...

• More Hardware & Peripherals Stories
• I4U News Homepage