Intel says it is now shipping the promised dual-core version of its Atom processor. Designed specifically for the affordable desktop computers Intel calls “nettops,” the “Intel Atom Processor 330″ has a 1.6GHz clock speed, 1MB of second-level cache, and an eight-Watt TDP, the company says.

Rather than announcing the Atom 330 on its own, the chipmaker leaked news of it during August’s IDF (Intel Developer Forum), in the context of its new D945GCLF2 mini-ITX motherboard, pictured at right. The D945GCLF2 is an enhanced version of Intel’s D945GCLF (“Little Falls”), an $80 product that made its debut in June with the then-new Atom 230 CPU.

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