Monday, January 19, 2009

Atom will be much cooler


If you believe Singapore portal VR-Zone, the next generation Atom processors will be much more powerful than existing chips. It is a platform Pineview, which is based on the architecture of Lincroft, and the idea should come to replace the current platform Menlow.

According to the latest data, the first chips from this series will have only one nucleus, and Dual version will be issued only in the I quarter of next year.

In addition to graphics, Intel still intends to build in memory controller processor. Thus, one can expect that future Nettop and Netbook will be very compact. According to Intel, they will be 70% smaller than existing models in size and 50% cost of energy. Incidentally, the new platform has already been named PineTrail-D. It was founded on the basis of a set of logic Tigerpoint and will support DDR2 800 memory. According to some analysts, PineTrail become a serious rival to NVIDIA Ion, AMD Yukon and VIA Nano.