There are two very different families of low power chips from Intel; one of which is available now and the other will be shipping in December after a 2 month delay.  First off are the new Atom chips which DigiTimes mentions, both dual core 32nm Cedar Trail-M parts.  Neither chip represent any major changes to the Atom lineup apart from a die shrink which allows higher frequencies at lower power.  The original delay was reported to be because of issues with 64-bit support as well as DX10 support but there has been no definitive news either way about if those problems will exist on release.   The graphics core does jump from 400MHz to 640MHz which may help Atom compete with Llano but it is still not going to be a fair competition.

The Register reports on a completely different low power chip which may find its way into some server applications.  Don’t let the name fool you, the Pentium 350 is a Sandy Bridge-DT chip based on the same core you find in the Xeon E3 chips that are already on the market.  They support Turbo Boost, Trusted Execution Technology, Hyperthreading and virtualization optimization as well as all the other improvements in the Sandy Bridge lineup.  The 32nm chip has two cores running at 1.2GHz, sports a TDP of 20W and is expected to sell for around $150.  At that price and TDP it is unlikely to be a good answer to the smaller chips that ARM is now trying to sneak into the server room but at least Intel now has a low power chip for the server room.

"Intel will launch its Cedar Trail-M platform for netbooks including 32nm-based Atom N2800 and N2600 processors in December, according to industry sources.

Because of shrinking demand for Atom processors and chipsets due to competition from tablet PCs, Intel’s third-quarter 2011 revenues of US$269 million from related products dropped 32% on year, the sources indicated. Due to weak demand, Intel has delayed Cedar Trail-M from September to December, the sources noted."

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