From the first generation of atom processor Intel company fights for a decrease in the energy consumption level. Situation will change to the best side with the release of pine trail platform, which allow to decrease the energy consumption level due to the integration of basic north bridge components in the processor, including graphic core.
Atom processor is already available for more than year and the frequency of single core Atom for netbook still 1.6 GHz. The following generation processors in this sense will keep similar tendency .
According to one Intel Vice Presidents , the company plans to more intensively increase the productivity of atom processors. For this Intel will use in their development the famous strategy tick- so, which provides passage to the new architecture in two years .