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For the in-order design of Atom (that can't fill its idle time with other work) latency is killing performance. The FSB is also taking up power while serving no needed role.

I think that when Intel gets this DDR3 memory controller on-chip, it will not be using the FSB. This will save power and increase performance by reducing latency. Do not expect much performance increase, due to the market notch that Intel is trying to keep safe and high-profit (full-price notebooks).]]>Feb 15th 2010 1:01PM