We've checked with some people who are supposed to have mobile and desktop versions of machines based on Atom and we've learned that so far there won't be any dual-cores launching anytime soon.

If you want either desktop or mobile atom, you would have to settle for single-core, and 1.6GHz seems to be the only version. Some partners will be able to de-clock it especially on a mobile side, but desktop guys won't get dual-cores that soon.

We've heard that dual-core Atom with at least 8W dissipation is planned, but it doesn’t look that you will see one at least until Q4 2008.