Intel announced yesterday a new Atom processor series called Z6xx. So what's new about? Atom processors has been traditionally made for netbooks, but now the new version will be also used on smartphones and tablets. Microprocessors for mobile devices has been made mostly by ARM, producer of popular and powerful Snapdragon chip. The Atom Z6xx is based on a new platform called Moorestown, which as Intel claims is much more powerful and energy-efficient. The company says that they have boosted performance while lowering power consumption. It resulted in up to 50-fold consumption reduction in the standby mode. The calculating speed has been boosted to 1.5 GHz on smartphones and up to 1.9 GHz on tablets. The Z6xx microprocessors will bring 3D graphics and what's shocking, possibility for playing 1080p HD videos.
It sounds impressive, but the information that Intel provided might not be completely true, because it hasn't been actually tested on portable devices. Of course the new processor brings variety to the market and we'll see if it will be able to compete with ARM, Apple or Nvidia.
Source: The Wall Street JournalShare
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