Atom N550 to bring sexy back to netbooks

Intel just announced a new Atom N550 processor with dual-core and hyper-threading (4HT) that might just bring sexy back to netbooks.
While
this is not the first dual-core Atom processor by Intel (Atom N330 was
used in an Asus Eee PC 1201N netbook), it could be the one that will be
widely used on upcoming netbooks.
The two cores run at a much lower clock-rate at 1.5GHz but over-all
TDP is lower at just 8.5W. The Atom D510 (for nettops) is 13W and while
the Atom N330 is only 8W, it does not include the power consumption by
the graphics (the N550 already includes GMA 3150). The single core Atom
N450 is rated at 5.5W.
Expect next generation netbooks to sport the Atom N550 with support
for DDR3 RAM soon. That means more processing power with the same long
battery life (like the Acer Aspire One D255, Asus Eee PC 1015N). Should
be interesting to compare to AMD’s Athlon Neo II K325.