http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/int ... e-2010055/

Major points in article:
- Power consumption is 50x less than current Atom chips, and developers can continue to use an x86 platform. (whoa)
- Intel say devices will appear on the market in the second half of 2010
- A 1.5GHz Atom-Z will be found in smart phones, while a 1.9GHz model will be in tablet devices,



Your thoughts on the Atom-Z?
I call BS...

I didn't read the article, but a cell phone has a resolution of what 200x320? Doesn't take much computing power (CPU and GPU) to get high frame rates on that.

As for consuming 50x less power, that would be impressive! I would like to see it.

Yeah, Q3's not much of a feat. Hell, you can play Quake III on your G1. Google Quaak for Android. Supposedly, it's slightly jittery but still playable even on our old G1s...and of course it runs slick as snot on Snapdragon-powered beasts like the Nexus 1.

But you nailed the real advantage of Atom: x86 architecture. And it'll still run Android, which means my next phone will DEFINITELY be Intel powered.

More details:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/int ... ,2624.html