Intel, whilst celebrating the one year anniversary of its popular mini Atom chip, has announced a 2Ghz version of the Atom is on its way to consumers.

“Today, we’re announcing two new products in the Atom family. The Z550,”

said Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president of Intel at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing today,

“This is the first 2-GHz processor that will fit in your pocket.”

The second announced chip bares Z515 as the model name, and is rated at 1.2Ghz. Naturally, both chips are aimed at the growing MID (mobile Internet devices) market and as a result have been designed to be as energy-effiecent as possible in order to increase battery life. Hyperthreading has also been thrown in for extra performance.

The device is already available for developers to start developing the next generation of netbooks and mobile devices.

This means that Intel now has a high-end, mid-range, and low-end option of MIDs.