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    Phoronix: Intel Atom Running At 2GHz With Hyper Threading

    While it already seems like the Intel Atom processor family has been around for quite a while, it's really only been one year. Today Intel is celebrating the one year anniversary of the Atom processor from the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. To commemorate the one year anniversary, Intel has introduced two new members of the Atom family...

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  • #2
    False!

    Originally posted by phoronix View Post
    Phoronix: Intel Atom Running At 2GHz With Hyper Threading
    The Intel Z550 is the first Intel Atom processor to support Hyper Threading. It was just recently with the introduction of the Core i7 that Hyper Threading had been reintroduced to allow for eight logical CPU cores. Now with a Hyper Threaded Atom, the operating system will see two cores.
    http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzE5MQ
    This is absolutely, totally false! Almost ALL Atom processors support HyperThreading, including the most common N270. The only ones that don't are the lower-power ones from the "Z" series.

    Please document yourself before writing falsehoods! You've benchmarked several Atom netbooks, did you try "cat /proc/cpuinfo" on one for kicks?
    Check this out:
    Code:
    $ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
    processor       : 0               
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel    
    cpu family      : 6               
    model           : 28              
    model name      : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270   @ 1.60GHz
    stepping        : 2                                     
    cpu MHz         : 800.000                               
    cache size      : 512 KB                                
    physical id     : 0                                     
    siblings        : 2                                     
    core id         : 0                                     
    cpu cores       : 1                                     
    apicid          : 0                                     
    initial apicid  : 0                                     
    fdiv_bug        : no                                    
    hlt_bug         : no                                    
    f00f_bug        : no                                    
    coma_bug        : no                                    
    fpu             : yes                                   
    fpu_exception   : yes                                   
    cpuid level     : 10                                    
    wp              : yes                                   
    flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr lahf_lm                                                                                                         
    bogomips        : 3220.82                                                                                                                                       
    clflush size    : 64                                                                                                                                            
    power management:                                                                                                                                               
    
    processor       : 1
    vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
    cpu family      : 6           
    model           : 28          
    model name      : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270   @ 1.60GHz
    stepping        : 2                                     
    cpu MHz         : 800.000                               
    cache size      : 512 KB                                
    physical id     : 0                                     
    siblings        : 2                                     
    core id         : 0
    cpu cores       : 1
    apicid          : 1
    initial apicid  : 1
    fdiv_bug        : no
    hlt_bug         : no
    f00f_bug        : no
    coma_bug        : no
    fpu             : yes
    fpu_exception   : yes
    cpuid level     : 10
    wp              : yes
    flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr lahf_lm
    bogomips        : 3215.96
    clflush size    : 64
    power management:
    People come here expecting accurate news, things like this make one question the accuracy of other articles :-/

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    • #3
      Ouch

      But anyways, just report the issue without complaining. Instead, complain if your report gets ignored.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by mgc8 View Post
        This is absolutely, totally false! Almost ALL Atom processors support HyperThreading, including the most common N270. The only ones that don't are the lower-power ones from the "Z" series.
        Just a typo... It's been fixed. Running on little sleep this morning.
        Michael Larabel
        https://www.michaellarabel.com/

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        • #5
          The Atoms all have in order pipelines... now if they had made an out of order Atom .. that would be interesting

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          • #6
            Originally posted by bulletxt View Post
            Ouch
            But anyways, just report the issue without complaining. Instead, complain if your report gets ignored.
            Sorry, I'm quite lacking in the sleep department myself and it tends to make my reactions harsher than they should be
            Glad to see this corrected!

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            • #7
              Man, I can't believe it only uses 3 watts - that's amazing.

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              • #8
                It will hardly beat a single core of a K8 at 800MHz in a lot of tasks.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by GreatWalrus View Post
                  Man, I can't believe it only uses 3 watts - that's amazing.
                  The german computer magazine c't ran a comparison of most current cpus shortly ago. Among other things, they also compared energy efficency (in calculations/time, don't now exactly which benchmark they took anymore). The Atom (1.6 Ghz) ended up last, and I don't think this would be much different for this new Atom.

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                  • #10
                    If you own a MSI wind with a recent BIOS you could try to oc the 1.6 cpu to 2.0 too

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