The company was stealthy in its release, but not stealthy enough

Oct 25, 2012 15:10 GMT  ·  By

Intel may have launched the Clover Trail Atom Z2760 CPU, but the Cedar Trail line of Atom chips is still in demand.

Seeing this, Intel has created the Atom D2560, with two cores at 2 GHz each, plus 1 MB L2 cache.

Essentially, it is a slightly slower version (133 MHz slower) of the Atom D2700, but faster than the other Atom units, even though the price is the same as that of the D2550 ($42/ 42 Euro).

Intel's official price list should have already been updated with the 32nm CPU (Saltwell micro-architecture).

Interestingly enough, the chip supports Hyper-Threading (lets each core execute two application threads at once).

It is really strange to see this Atom chips appear after Intel basically killed off the series by discontinuing the D2700, back in August.

Intel's product database, Atom datasheet and specifications update pages have yet to be updated.