Mobile and Desktop Processors
Intel® Core™ processors, Intel Atom® processors, tools, and utilities
Announcements
FPGA community forums and blogs on community.intel.com are migrating to the new Altera Community and are read-only. For urgent support needs during this transition, please visit the FPGA Design Resources page or contact an Altera Authorized Distributor.
16835 Discussions

Atom Processor Upgrades

idata
Employee
‎09-18-2009 04:19 PM
1,810 Views

I'm trying to upgrade a netbook that currently has an Atom z520 processor. I would really like to install a z550, but am unable to find a place to purchase it from. Any ideas or suggestions?

0 Kudos

Link Copied

1 Reply
John_S_Intel
Employee
‎09-22-2009 01:53 PM
964 Views

You're probably out of luck if you want to swap out the processor yourself. Intel® Atom™ processors are BGA parts (soldered onto the CPU socket) rather than PGA (with pins and a pin-based CPU socket). For upgrade options, you are probably going to have to work with your system manufacturer - and even doing that may not allow you to do the upgrade you want.

John S.

 

Intel Customer Support

 

*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
0 Kudos
Copy link
Reply

Community support is provided Monday to Friday. Other contact methods are available here.

Intel does not verify all solutions, including but not limited to any file transfers that may appear in this community. Accordingly, Intel disclaims all express and implied warranties, including without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, as well as any warranty arising from course of performance, course of dealing, or usage in trade.

For more complete information about compiler optimizations, see our Optimization Notice.