Is the Intel Atom N270 dual core?

[daniel014]

I've just received my MSI Wind with the Intel Atom processor, and in both Windows XP and Ubuntu, it says it is dual core. Is this true?

[mips]

As far as I'm aware only the 330 model is dual core.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors#Netbook_process ors_.28sub-notebook.29

[Kingsley]

A quick Wikipedia search confirms that it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom

[mips]

A quick Wikipedia search confirms that it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom

Where do you read that?


Mobile Diamondville

On March 2, 2008, Intel announced a low-cost mobile processor (code-named Diamondville) to be used in the Classmate PC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmate_PC) Netbook (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook). It is used in Intel's low-cost Mini-ITX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-ITX) motherboards (code-named "Little Falls") and in a number of netbooks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbooks).[20] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom#cite_note-19)[21] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom#cite_note-20)[22] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom#cite_note-21)[23] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom#cite_note-22) It will supersede Conroe L (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_2#Conroe_L) by using Diamondville as single core (N270: 2.5 W TDP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Design_Power)) for laptop or dual core for desktop (330: 4 W TDP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_Design_Power)), running at 1.6 GHz per core.

[Redache]

and in both Windows XP and Ubuntu, it says it is dual core. Is this true?

It's more than likely due to the Hyper Threading that Atom's have. The OS will see it as having Dual Cores even though it has one Physical Core.