Back in March Intel kicked off its efforts to get its low-power Atom CPUs into home servers and NAS devices. Since then, the company has clearly gained some traction in the market and we've seen quite a few products that take advantage of the platform.
Now Intel has its foot in the door, it's releasing two chips that bump up the clock speeds and move the platform up to DDR3 memory.
The new D425 - a successor to the old D410 - is a single-core processor clocked at 1.8GHz, whilst the D525 is a dual-core version running at the same speed, and is the same CPU that we've seen popping up in a few upcoming nettops and netbooks.
The platform will still leverage the same 82801 IR input/output controller, but the speed boost should make the chips more capable, while the move to lower-voltage DDR3 should help to reduce power consumption that little bit further.
Intel has managed to gather a good number of partners for its first platform, so expect to see boxes from manufacturers like QNAP, Thecus, Synology, Cisco and LaCie appearing in the near future.
