Demand for the older Atom is declining as netbook makers wait for the still-in-short-supply Atom N280.

Netbook manufacturers are in a bind. To ship XP, the CPU can't run faster than 1.66Ghz. Any faster, and they can't use XP for Netbooks. Instead, they have to use Vista, and that would mean competing against far more powerful dual core Vista Notebooks.

Some netbooks have a BIOS switch that allows the user to upclock the CPU to 2.0Ghz, most Atoms will run at those speeds--they were probably designed for those speeds, but had to be underclocked to comply with XPs license restrictions.

The N280 also runs at 1.66Ghz, but uses DDR3 RAM with a faster FrontSideBus. So, this XP 1.66Ghz limit may be helping to increase motherboard bus technology.

That's becoz its been tagged with a wrong price. People expected the Atoms are very cheap, as they preform low. But it turns out that, some of the Atom netbooks are tagged with a low-mid range notebook price.

It is reported that GT300 will be named GTX380.
once thought to be 350 part, this is better. Open Gl 3.1 plus bunch of other stuffs, make it powerful, in '9? or basicly '10 thing. wOOOOuu, 2010 still gets Ought or ' for o in 201X, neat, Now thats Real News.

Actually remember Nvidia establish base for Vista Ultimate with Open Gl base for Vista & 6200 card , this should be base expanded into useable territory. Maybe Atom Single core & nvidias favored single core O/S called xp, might be finally behind ALL of US, with NT6 World In Progress. drashek

A good chipset? You must not have had the same KT133As that I had. IDE data corruption, incompatibility with a host of mainstream PCI cards, and several other bugs. Did AMD have anything better? No, but that doesn't mean it was good.

You may want to read up on the Via Nano.

Via would play nice on this market segment. But I was just wondering what happend to VIA anyway. Via is good on Chipsets (remembre the KT133A/266A) and proc. I think that we will hear frm them soon (hopefully).

The netBook™ manufacturers need to switch to something that doesn't cost them an ARM and a leg.