Intel introduces three new Atom processors for tablets

Intel has presented three new Atom processors for presumably tablets. The three all fall in the Z37xx series from Atoms and are variants of current processors, but with higher clock speeds for the cpus or gpu.

The Z3785 is a Z3775 with a higher GPU clock speed; Intel has increased it from a maximum of 778MHz to 833MHz, CPU-World writes. That Atom will probably be mainly intended for large tablets. In addition, Intel is introducing two new Atoms with both type number Z3736, variants of the existing Z3735.

In both cases, the clock speed of the four Silvermont processor cores goes up from 1.83GHz to 2.16GHz. This step is probably necessary, because many other processor makers are increasing clock speeds of hardware for the mobile market to above 2GHz. Intel specifies that it is about turbo speeds; according to Intel, the normal clock speed is still 1.33GHz. The difference between the two processors is that the Z3736F can handle a maximum of 2GB RAM and a memory bandwidth of 10.6GB/s, while the G variant has to make do with a maximum of 1GB of RAM and 5.3GB/s.

Intel makes the Atoms, among other things, for tablets with Windows or Android. There have been some tablets with Atoms in the past, but many popular tablets still have ARM processors on board.