Shuttle Intro Atom-powered X27 Mini PC

Shuttle is introducing a green mini PC called the X27. This tiny unit will use as little as 23-watts whilst idling and 36-watts whilst in use. The X27 includes one of Intel's Atom chips, in a case which measures only 10 x 7 x 2.75 inches. The Unit should be available sometime in September.

Intel Atom Appears In New PCs

Intels new Atom processor is appearing in all sorts of new devices. OQO showed their proposed OQO MID device in prototype form equipped with an Atom. Intel themselves showed their Classmate PC concept which also features an Intel 1.6Mhz processor. With many other MID devices appearing with this chip, its low power consumption and other capabilities look to be a real hit with many manufacturers.

AMD Prepare Bobcat

Despite their poor financial performance recently AMD have revealed that they will be revealing their rival to Intel’s Atom CPU later this year. The chip, codenamed ‘Bobcat’, will have a 1GHz clock speed, 128KB of L1 cache and 256KB of L2 cache and will come with an on-board memory controller for 400MHz DDR2 RAM.

Dual Core Atom Processor Rumoured

Intel's rumoured Atom dual-core chip appears to be a real thing. Several Sites are reporting on the new chip which will purportedly come in an 8W, 1.6GHz flavour. With each physical core adding Hyperthreading support, The next generation of dual core Atom powered MIDs should start offering much more in the way of power and capabilities.

Rumours of Atom Based iPhone Unfounded

The race to find tech news is often with its perils. Yesterday several sites posted news about a possible new iphone which uses intels atom chip as its cpu. The story which has been refuted by intel themselves arose out of a purported statement reported by ZDNet in Germany, where German Intel General Manager Hannes Schwaderer said future iPhones would have the Intel Atom chip. Later posts indicate that Mr Schwaderer was only making general statements of future Atom powered MIDs. Sites like Engadget and ZDNet were quick to post corrections. Only Time will tell if this is true or not. Unfortunately this is one of the dangers of trying to be first at the post.