Intel is full of new / old ideas. Any given big company likes
to dominate the world, and Intel is definitely not an exception. Therefore they
are telling their customers that they should drop the system sales of single core
Celeron.
System integrators and OEMs are selling micro-ATX based
motherboards and a single-core Celeron processors and they usually sell them in
rather unattractive micro ATX towers. Now Intel tells these vendors to sell
Atom-based dual cores in smaller form factors (sub 8.5 l), and in smaller and more
attractive cases.
Dual-core small nettop Atoms should create an entirely new
market, as people still get surprised that a desktop can be so small and cheap.
Also, Intel promises to reduce BOM (Bill of Material) and increase OEM profitability during the
economic crisis. (Yeah right Sub. Ed.)
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Drop single-core Celeron for dual Atom
Intel advises OEMs, SIs to go Atom