Tags: Intel Atom Centrino Atom platorm diamondvilleDiamondville is Silverthorne based.
Intel as announced that the processor previously know as Silverthorne will be sold under the Atom brand of microprocessors, targeted at mobile internet devices(MIDs). In the case that only Intel chips are used for the MID platform of a product, the manufacturer will be granted the right to also use Centrino Atom brand; a similar strategy to the one used with the Centrino brand for laptops, where the manufacturer must purchase the processor, chipset and wireless controller from Intel in order to be able to put a Centrino sticker on it.
As for details, the previously speculated 2GHz clockspeed didn't come true and is instead of 1.8GHz with a TDP varying from 0.6 to 2.5W.
The new chip is composed of 47 million transistors and is built with Intel's current 45nm process, delivering a very small chip measuring less than 25mm2. The previously announced support of HyperThreading technology has also been confirmed.
The Atom brand will also engulf the Diamondville processor, the codename for a platform targeted at small form factor systems.
The architecture used in Diamondville wasn't know before but it is now clear that it is also based on the same architecture as Silverthorne, yet to be named. Intel guidance suggests that the Diamondville is a 1.6GHz processor with 512KB of L2 cache and HyperThreading support running on a 533MHz FSB, very similar specifications to the Silverthorne. The TDP of Diamondville processors is of 4 to 8W, depending on versions of the processor, probably for the single and dual core versions, respectively. This can be attributed to a more relaxed binning of the same dies; the ones who leak more current can be sold as Diamondville cores and the better ones, with a lower TDP, as Silverthorne cores.
More details of platforms based on the Atom processors are expected this week, at CeBit.
Source: Intel
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