It’s no longer a rumor, Intel planned to roll out its first dual-core Atomic processor sometime in Q3 and the the dudes at Fudzilla fleshed out more on it. The first dual-core Atom processor will be dubbed the Atom 330 with 1.6GHz clock speed same as the current single-core Atom 230. In addition, the new dual-core Atom processor will supposedly pack 1MB L2 cache (double of the Atom 230) and Hyperthreading support up to four threads. Besides, the FSB should be believed to stay at 533MHz because of the chip limitation. Interestingly, the new dual-core Atom boosts power consumption at just 8-watt which is just an ideal to handle the very small potable notebooks but still significantly less than Intel’s current low-voltage processors. Unfortunately, price is unknown.

[via Fudzilla]

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