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Intel's crazy-popular Atom processor already dominates the netbook and nettop segments, but that might turn out to be only a glimpse of things to come. By the end of the year, look for Atom CPUs to have found a home in more than half of all entry-level desktops. What the Caesar?
Citing un-named industry sources in Taiwan, DigiTimes says Intel has had to adjust its target shipment ratio of single-core Atom 230 and dual-core Atom 330 processors as a percentage of total CPU shipments with nettops and entry-level desktops. And what an increase Intel puportely projects. According to the report, Intel expects Atom growth to increase from 4 percent (nettops) and 6 percent (desktops) in the first quarter to 10 percent and 52 percent, respectively, by the fourth quarter of 2009.
As a result, DigiTimes says Intel's 65nm dual-core Celeron E1000-series and 45nm single-core Celeron 200-series CPUs will account for less than a fifth of th shipment makeup by the end of the year.
If the projections hold true, both entry-level and mid-range desktop pricing is likely to go down.
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FusilliJerry82
March 23, 2009 at 8:36am
Why would you want a desktop with an Atom in it? IIRC, the Atom is about as fast as a Tualatin PIII, which is fine in a netbook where battery life and weight are of the essence, but in a desktop its stupid. I might as well just keep around the near decade-old Dell XPS t750 I upgraded to a 1.4Ghz Tualatin 5 or so years ago.
Pylon
March 18, 2009 at 12:39pm
So Gordon Mah Ung was right.....
Seriously. A 400-series or dual-core Celery would easily beat the crap out of Atom.
Caboose
March 18, 2009 at 10:23am
Intel is STILL making the Celery processor? That POS shoulda died off long ago and never returned. The Celeron was such a piece of garbage!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Keith E. Whisman
March 18, 2009 at 11:43am
New Celleron CPU's are alot better performing processors than the most expensive Atom CPU. Atom means shit in German I thing. My friend tells me that Atom means shit in Yidish. Why doesn't Intel go back to Israel and ask them to make another kick ass cpu. Israel seems to have their CPU making and designing shit together.
nekollx
March 18, 2009 at 9:41am
considering most Companies are running on 6 year old hardware it would make sense. I mean for most of the people in my office a $400 dell will do...now if they were running duel core atoms...
Ilander
March 18, 2009 at 8:17am
I'm sure that this is largely because of the business-end of computing. To a business of almost any size, atom-based desktops are attractive, because of their low price, low power consumption, and adaquate performance for tasks like email and document-creation. They even have some forward-thinking built in, as they are supposed to be compatible with Windows 7 as well.
If I was the owner of a small business, an atom-based desktop would likely be a defacto standard for me, provided that I was a recent startup.
