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Intel's Atom CPU line may bring back ugly memories of the netbook era and slow, underpowered devices that were often jokingly compared to the compute power of a common potato, but this latest line of Atom CPUs appears to have evolved into something much different.

At the high end of the C3000 line, Intel is talking in terms of 16-core CPUs, and not 16-core weaklings either. The announcement includes some features borrowed from the coveted Xeon line, such as hardware virtualization, and RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability) which is a tech designed for enterprise data needs.
Intel is aiming these chips square at the NAS and IoT markets, which makes sense since these hexacore-capable CPUs will be excellent for dealing with several parallel data streams. They may not be as fast as Intel's premium microarchitectures such as Kaby Lake and Broadwell, but they certainly are a far cry from the old Atoms of the netbook generation.

The C3000 series succeeds the flawed C2000 Atom series of products, which caused a good number of networking and NAS style devices to fail prematurely due to a design flaw. Provided Intel keeps quality control up and avoids a similar fate, the C3000 has all the specs to be an interesting product indeed. The new line is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2017.