Intel on Monday announced that 12 new netbooks based on its dual-core mobile Intel Atom processors, code-named “Pine Trail,” are now available. These are available from eight vendors, including Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba. Other vendors will announce their new netbooks running the N550 soon, Intel said. Netbooks built around the Atom N550 are aimed at heavy online use and at gamers. The netbooks released Monday are built around the Intel Atom N550 CPU. This is a 150 GHz processor that runs on two physical cores with two threads each.
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Intel Doubles Down on Netbook Processors
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 23, 2010 02:14 PMIntel on Monday announced that 12 new netbooks based on its dual-core mobile Intel Atom processors, code-named “Pine Trail,” are now available. These are available from eight vendors, including Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba. Other vendors will announce their new netbooks running the N550 soon, Intel said. Netbooks built around the Atom N550 are aimed at heavy online use and at gamers. The netbooks released Monday are built around the Intel Atom N550 CPU. This is a 150 GHz processor that runs on two physical cores with two threads each.