The Inquirer reports that the latest version of the Intel Itanium, the Tukwila, crashed during its demo at IDF, and you know those small SO-DIMM's in laptops? They are about to be replaced with "Micro-DIMMs" - so we have yet another memory socket coming.

Intel's Atom processor is apparently the choice for Eee-PC style devices - including the next generation Eee-PC 900 (with 8.9" screen) a "Thinno" branded device with a 7" 800x480 screen, and an unnamed thrid dvice running Windows XP.

Intel revealed some more information:

• 0.65W to 2.4W TDP
• Hyper Threading on 533MHz FSB parts
• 400MHz/533MHz FSB
• Virtualization
• SSE/2/3 support
• Enhanced pre-fetcher
• 512K L2 cache

The initial products will be:

• $45 - Z500, 800MHz, 0.65W TDP, 400MHz FSB
• $45 - Z510, 1.1GHz, 2W TDP, 400MHz FSB
• $65 - Z520, 1.33GHz, 2W TDP, 533MHz FSB, HT
• $95 - Z530, 1.6GHz, 2W TDP, 533MHz FSB, HT
• $160 - Z540, 1.86GHz, 2.4W TDP, 533MHz FSB, HT

In case you are curious, here is the link to Intel's IDF press kit.