The new atom is part of the beginning of 2010 featured platform Pine Trail. These chips have a - although very slow - Graphics core, for which there are spare but with Nvidia ion2 already. The cores themselves are at Pine Trail at the same time much faster than the Atom N270 of the first nuclear generation.

Intel Virtualization ropes the Atom N550 processor, as in all the N series does not carry on. This offer only the more expensive single-core atom of the Z-series, also with a maximum of 2.5 watts is still significantly cheaper. The other restrictions will remain also the Atom N550 has only a memory channel that can address a maximum of 2 GB of DDR3 DRAM. Another limit was calm but unverified information Intel allows for Netbooks with the new CPU and show sizes of up to 12.1 inches.

Compared to the D525 1.8GHz N550 1.5 GHz is the only good 16 percent slower, but over 34 percent more economical. Intel expects the Atom Netbooks like the new long term reach such devices with the Atom N450, which is currently single core at 1.66 GHz. Its TDP is, however, with 5.5 watts, well below the 8.5 watts of the N550.

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