Intel has something even more sophisticated, called Silverthorne (check tomshardware website on IDF). It can go as low as 0.8W - 2.0W when full load - clock speed dependent.

I had played around with these system, running Windows Vista Basic without heatsink and fan.

This post has been edited by charge-n-go: Jun 1 2007, 04:40 PM

No idea, but when i touch the bare silicon with my finger, it is slighter more than warm. I guess it should be around 45C with average 60% CPU load (1W Silverthorne).

The 2W part does require a small cheapskate heatsink though (like oldern S3 graphic card), if u want it to operate at good temperature.

The 9W lineup is for high performance embedded PC system. The PDA will be using Geode series which is well below 1.0W.

These high performance embedded PC can be found in 7-eleven. If you observed carefully, there is an LCD screen displaying some advertisements. They definitely would not want a high power consumption PC to increase their operation cost. Normaly they'll just opt for a sub 50W (max load) computer system, load up with Windows CE and run their system with 1 -> 2GB of flash memory.