Sharp D4 WS016SH UMPC

LCD Size: 5″
Pixel Format: 1024 x 600
Other: Touch, 2MP camera, 64-key QWERTY keyboard, TV tuner, mono speaker
Wirless: 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Unit Dimension: 84 x 188 x 25.9mm
Weight: 470g
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
Availability: mid-June in Japan

Sharp’s D4 WS016SH UMPC is a slider-type that sports Intel’s new Centrino Atom Z520 CPU running at 1.33GHz. The LCD is a 5″ sporting a very high pixel format of 1024 x 600 and is touch capable. The D4 has 1GB of RAM and a 40GB HD.

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This is one of four videos we shot and shared online for the launch of Intel Atom and Intel Centrino Atom, Intel’s tiniest processor to date. It’s built with Intel’s smallest (45nm) transistors in production and designed to sip battery juice while packing a punch inside small, light Internet devices.

We’ll see more “real” devices when the chips are releases to gadget and gizmo makers in the second quarter of this year.

Here is where we can watch what people are saying online. Here are some bookmarked stories on del.icio.us and StumbleUpon.

Voltada para um segmento que promete gerar milhoes em lucros nos proximos anos, a Intel anunciou o lançamento de 2 novos chips com 47 milhoes de transistores e menos de 25 mm ² de tamanho:

Tratam-se do Intel® Atom™ processor e do Intel® Centrino® Atom™ processor technology ambos processadores desenhados para o mercado de dispositivos moveis e computadores de baixo consumo (vide UMPCs, smartphones, etc). Estes sao os processadores de menor tamanho que a Intel ja fabricou. Por exemplo, estes processadores possuem uma TDP de 0.6 a 2.5 watts (o que significa que o cooler pode dissipar no maximo 2.5 watts de calor representando um ganho de espaço) e 1.8 GHZ de velocidade, valor minimo se comparado a um mobile Core 2 Duo com seus 35 watts de TDP. É uma boa noticia se termos em conta que estamos numa epoca em que se tenta reduzir o tamanho dos computadores, tenta-se criar computadores baratos.

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White coats at the world’s largest processor monopoly manufacturer have built the smallest processor using the smallest transistors.The Intel Atom family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year.

Together, these new market segments represent a significant new opportunity for world domination to grow the overall market for Intel silicon, using the Intel Atom processor as the foundation. The company also announced the Intel Centrino Atom processor technology brand for MID platforms, consisting of multiple chips that claim to improve Internet in a pocketable device.

The Intel Atom processor is based on an entirely new microarchitecture designed specifically for small devices and low power, while maintaining the Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set compatibility when using a standard PC. The design also includes support for multiple threads for better performance and increased system responsiveness, said Intel. All of this on a chip that measures less than 25mm², making it Intel’s smallest and lowest power processor yet to dat. Up to 11 Intel Atom processor die – the wee slivers of silicon packed with 47 million transistors each – would fit in an area the size of an American penny.