Intel Atom Turns One Year Old and Intel Announces Moorestown

This afternoon in Beijing celebrates the one-year anniversary of shipping the Atom processor for MIDs, and Intel senior VP Anand Chandrasekher announced two new Intel Atom Z series chips for Mobile Internet Devices. The two new Atom processors are the Z550 and Z515. The Z550 extends the performance of the MID product line to 2GHz with Intel Hyperthreading technology support, setting a new standard for the highest performance processor in the under-3-watt power envelope. The Z515 incorporates the new Intel Burst Performance Technology (Intel BPT), which enables the processor to run at 1.2GHz when performance is needed in existing small and sleek MID form factors. He also demonstrated for the first time our forthcoming Moorestown product, showing significantly more than the 10X power consumption improvement we have been forecasting.