That will be the icing on Intel's cake.
AMD can't compete in this area either. They don't even feel it's required to do operational testing of their cores ate 0-10 degree C. AMD environmental testing starts at 15 degrees C and above. That rules AMD out for any serious embedded design wins.
Intel test their cores at -20 to +70, and some for embedded at -40 to +90.

This sounds a bit like it could be Intel's response to the Nvidia Ion posturing. If you want a higher-end Netbook with a much better integrated gpu, then they'll point to the new "mini" Core 2 chips, rather than the Atom.

:oO They shouldn't have bothered with Atom in the first place, the perf is roughly equal to the 8 year old Pentium III. I always thought VIA's CPUs traded too much perf in for low power/heat too. A modified Core2 based CPU always made more sense and could have saved some serious R&D.

HTPC's as well? Seems like Atom stinks at transcoding.

While the Atom chips are nice, it was only time before Intel released an uber lower voltage, less ghz Core2 tech notebooks. These would make GREAT netbooks, if only Intel didn't rape on prices.