The Z550 is said to consume less than 3W of power, and incorporates Intel's Hyper Threading technology to allow it to appear to the host operating system as a pair of processors.

Meanwhile the Z515 incorporates the latest Burst Performance Technology which enables the processor to run at 1.2GHz when performance is needed in existing small and sleek MID form factors.

This technology seems to be an improved version of Intel's SpeedStep that drops the CPU frequency below peak when appropriate.

At the Beijing event, Anand Chandrasekher, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility Group, also provided a sneak peek into the low-power innovation of the platform by showcasing a greater than 10x idle power reduction compared to today's Atom-based platform in a side-by-side demo. This reduction, he stressed is made possible through a combination of novel power management techniques, a new partition optimized for the MID segments and the company's Hi-k 45-nm manufacturing process.

Due by 2010, the Moorestown platform is comprised of a System on Chip (codenamed 'Lincroft') that integrates a 45-nm Intel Atom processor core, graphics, video and memory controller, and a companion input/output (I/O) hub (codenamed 'Langwell').

The platform will be accompanied by a new Moblin software version that is optimized to enable the rich, interactive, PC-like Internet experience along with cellular voice capabilities.

Chandrasekher also described the next-generation processors for laptops based on the Nehalem architecture that will be available in the second half of this year on the 'Calpella' platform. He said these processors will be more powerful then their predecessors by incorporating process such as Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost..

He also touched on Intel's ultra low-voltage (ULV) processors and how they are creating a category of ultra-thin laptops less than one inch thick. Intel is slated to offer lower-priced versions of these processors by early summer that are expected to engender a class of low-cost ultra-thin laptops, which some have described as a MacBook Air for the masses.

By: DocMemory
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