Intel announces 1.83GHz Atom N470 processor — sort of

We’ve heard mutterings about the Atom N470 since late last year, but the chip wasn’t part of the recent ‘ Pine View’ processor launch. Intel has, however, finally announced this new netbook processor today and, as expected, the Atom N470 has two cores that is a single-core chip runs at 1.83GHz.

The information appeared on the  Intel PR Chip Shots page over the weekend and although it links to the  Atom processor page on the main Intel site, this has yet to be updated (at least at the time of writing) with the Atom N470’s details.

Still, clock speed and cores aside, the Atom N470 has essentially the same specification as the Atom N450 — Hyper-Threading, 512Kb of L2 cache, support for DDR2-667 RAM and integrated GMA3150 graphics with hardware MPEG-2 video decoding (but no hardware support for H.264 decoding).

Engadget claims to have already done some testing with the Atom N470, via a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t netbook, but it has yet to publish its review. It does reckon that even with 2Gb of RAM, N470 performance is only on a par with Atom N450 netbooks with the PCMark05 benchmark.

This hardly surprising — a clock speed increase of a couple of hundred megahertz is unlikely to make much performance difference. No doubt we’ll no more once Engadget publishes its review.

Correction: Yep, we goofed — the Atom N470 is a single-core processor, not dual-core. Looks like one of our cores wasn't fully functioning this morning...

[ Intel via  Engadget]