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fms	2008-04-04 , 09:17
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Originally Posted by directore

edit: look the technology usually marches forward not backward, Atoms will be 45nm, 2420 is 65nm I believe,

2420 is still a 90nm part. In other words, it still can be improved by moving it to 65nm and TI is working in that direction (although you get current leakage problems at 65nm).

also atoms use hafnium based high-K dielectrics for much lower leakage and faster switching speed, atoms gotta be an improvement over 2420 a technology at least 3 year old from a company that never was at the front end of semiconductor technology.

It is not the front end that matters, but the overall value of the product to consumers (in this case, gadget manufacturers). With OMAPs, you have got cheap, simple, low power, reasonably fast system-on-chip.

With Atom, you are basically getting a Pentium I CPU built with 45nm technology, at $45 apiece, and then you have to add the external chipset to it. This will work for small laptops, like Asus EEE, but there is no way it will work in a cell phone, unless Intel takes further steps to slim down, cheapen, and integrate its solution.

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