Engineering samples of Cedarview-D Atom to be available by late 2010

If everything goes on the track, we would get to see engineering sample of Cedarview-D phase one in Q4 2010.

In late Q1 2011, second engineering sample should be ready, whereas the qualification samples are expected to be ready by Q2 2011. In early Q3 2011, the production would start that will be followed by its launch.

Intel to bring out Arrandale P4500 mobile Celeron next year

Intel is planning to release it’s first Arrandale-based mobile Celeron in Q2 2010. Penryn-based fastest Celeron is expected to be unveiled on January 17th 2010 for $86. T3300, the fastest mobile Celeron runs at 2.0GHz clock speed; has two cores; two threads, 1MB of cache and FSB 800MHz.It supports the Montevina platform.

P4500 is the Celeron to be launched in Q2 and is a 32nm CPU with two cores and two threads. It runs at 1.86GHz clock speed. It also comes with 2MB of cache. Although it supports Hyperthreading and Turbo but they have been disabled due to pricing issues.

AMD looking forward for triple core for notebooks

Many new CPUs have been planned for Q2 2010 by AMD. Danube is part of a 2010 platform and it supports AMD-V.  The Phenom II triple-core N820 mobile processor has a 35W TDP and has three cores, which is nothing more than a quad-core with one core disabled. It has 1.5MB total cache or 512KB [...]

Intel: Goodbye Atom N270, Hello Atom N450!

Intel has taken the decision to stop selling Atom N270 in Q2 2010 as it will be launching its successor, the Atom N450 which will replace the aging N270.

It does not mean that you won’t be able to purchase a machine with N270 processor after Q2 2010 as some manufactures can stock these chips and later use them in their netbooks. So, you can get two line of Intel products at the same time!

Read more about N450 processor!