According to a price list available to customers, Intel has officially begun shipping the first dual-core version of its much-touted Atom processor.

In August at its developer forum, Intel said it would ship the first dual-core Atom this month, with the model 330 processor aimed at Atom-based desktops called nettops or netbooks.

Intel also has a single-core Atom for this category of small PCs.

The Atom 330 has two 1.6GHz processor cores, 1M byte of Level 2 cache and supports 667MHz DDR2 memory. The single-core 1.6GHz Atom 230 chip supports 533MHz DDR 2 memory.

A datasheet could not be located for further technical details, but the chip is priced at $43 in 1,000-unit quantities, making it the least expensive dual-core Intel processor, along with the dual-core Celeron processor, which is also priced at $43.

By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - Electronic News

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