Intel Atom launched on Asus motherboard with Socket 7

Unfortunately, when the first Pentium processors appeared, I was still very far from computers - in general, there was a desire to learn how to work on a PC, but it didn’t work out with money. Although, a little later, I still managed to catch up, already on the PI received by the organization where I worked from a rich and friendly American organization. Now with nostalgia I recall the very PI, on which work argued, and all sorts of toys were played, and the Internet was first explored. It seems that the nostalgia for the same “stumps” didn’t work with Intel developers either - it was recently announced that these same developers were able to “get” Intel Atom on an Asus motherboard with Socket 7 connector.

All this miracle of technology was collected by employees of some Intel research laboratory, who are charged with starting the system based on new and latest processors on old and very old motherboards. It is clear that in the bins of such a laboratory a lot of old PC elements can be stored, not to mention new processors. I don’t know the truth why all this is being undertaken, but decisions are extraordinary.



What is the adapter of several boards used, in order to get this whole miracle system. By the way, here the Intel Atom processor gives out only 50.1 MHz, and the software that monitors the indicators determines many of the characteristics incorrectly (the CPU-Z program was used). I wonder how much time it took for Intel engineers to create such an adapter in several levels? But the solution can be called "elegant", with a certain assumption, of course.



In general, this whole system seems to emulate the operation of the Intel Pentium processor, where one Atom is able to emulate four Pentium Is at a frequency of 60 MHz.

Via computerbase.de