ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF INTEL ATOM PROCESSORS

ADVANTAGES

· Low price – suitable for low-cost PC’s and Mobile Internet Devices (MID’s).

· Low Power consumption (lowest in the business).

· Low Thermal Design Power(TDP):

· Low Thermal Design Power enables thinner, lighter, portable netbook devices as it

· Reduces the cooling requirements.

· Power-optimized front side bus .

· Minimizes power needed to transmit data to the processor, resulting in significant power savings and enabling longer battery life - all without impacting performance.

· Intel Enhanced deeper sleep(ie the C6 mode).

· Hyper threading, a good feature on this processor.

· Heavy pipelining.

· Atom offers real internet experience with Flash video, YouTube etc in MID’s.

· Options to include Wi-Fi,Wi-Max,Bluetooth etc.

DISADVANTAGES

· The Chipsets

· Poor 3D performances

· A mismatched platform:

The Menlow platform is a little too large, too power-hungry, and too PC-centric to really deliver on Silverthorne's potential. Once Silverthorne-derived Moorestown system-on-chip arrives, and then we'll see the really sweet devices based on this processor technology come out of the woodwork. Moorestown is the Intel Corporation's code name for successor to the Menlow platform designed for mobile Internet devices. Current proposals call for it to use 10 times less power than Silverthorne and to hit the market in 2009-2010.