Intel to Update Atom Cedar Trail Lineup with D2550, N2650, and N2850 CPUs

Even though only a little over a week has passed since Intel has started shipping its first Atom processors based on the Cedar Trail architecture, the chip maker is already working on releasing a refreshed version of these CPUs.

As CPU-World has uncovered, the new Cedar Trail Atom processor range will include three models that will be known as the D2550, N2650, and N2850.

The first one of these, the Atom D2550, is actually an older acquaintance of ours as it first made its appearance back in December of 2011 in a leaked Intel CPU roadmap.

Clocked at the same 1.86GHz frequency as the D2500, this dual-core Atom processor brings a couple of improvements to the specifications list of its predecessor, including a higher 640MHz GPU frequency (up from 400MHz) and support for Intel’s Hyper-Threading technology.

The changes brought by Intel to this chip haven’t increased its TDP which is rated at the same 10W as that of the Atom D2500.

The two other CPUs in the Atom line, which will be launched together with the D2550, both come with better specs than the chips they are meant to replace and also sport a 0.1 Watt higher power consumption.

Their clock speeds will be set at 1.7GHz for the Atom N2650 and a round 2GHz for the N2850, and they include dual processing cores with Hyper-Threading support, 1MB of L2 cache memory, and integrated graphics.

In the Atom N2650 however, the built-in GPU is clocked at just 400MHz, so those of you looking for Blu-Ray 2.0 playback should be better served by the N2850 and its 640MHz clocked GPU.

No information regarding the release date or the pricing of these new Atom Cedar Trail chips is available at this point in time.

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