The Atom will evolve. After a long stagnation at 1.6 GHz, the last generation integrates the north bridge seems to offer it more flexibility with Intel to improve its products.

Indeed, Intel is expected to increase the number of references, yet limited to four in the range: N450 and N470 for mobile and D410 and D510 in desktop. The first two (1.66 and 1.83 GHz) would reach from the N455 and N475, able to support DDR3 instead of DDR2-667 current models. And in family D, a D525 would join the D510. Like the current model, it would be an Atom two cores clocked at 1.8 GHz with therefore priori internal FSB from 667 to 800 MHz. Moreover, the Atom would take over the D525 DDR3 over DDR2. We should finally see a gain interest from the ancient Atom 330 1.6GHz, but is limited both by its FSB (533 MHz only) as its memory. Processors should be out in the second quarter of 2010, prior to July.