Intel has confirmed that it’s shipping its new N280 Atom processor to PC makers, marking the dawn of netbooks capable of playing HD video.
The N280 is a single-core Atom running at 1.66GHz and is intended to replace the current 1.6GHz Atom N270.
Though the speed boost may sound negligible, the real improvement lies in the [...]

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