Intel has informed its partners that its current single-core
Atom 230 and dual-core Atom 330 will receive product discontinuance notice in
April 2010.
This doesn’t mean that Intel will stop selling them at that
date, but it gives computer OEMs a warning that in a few months after that
time, Intel will sell the last batch.
It looks like Intel should be ready to stop selling first
generation Atom by Q3 2010, which is roughly two years lifetime for the product
and by that time, Intel should be finishing up the third generation Atom.
Once Intel announces that the product has reached its End of
Life, partners cannot cancel their orders after that day or return the CPUs back
to the big daddy. New Atom D410 and D510 for desktops are starting to ship in
Q4 for the dual-core and Q1 for single core.
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PC Hardware
Desktop Atom starts dying in April 2010
That is the plan