Intel launches redesigned Atom chip for Netbooks2009-12-21 09:03 by DanielaTags: Intel, Atom, Netbook
Intel is launching the biggest makeover of the Atom processor since the seminal chip debuted in the spring of 2008, and consumers can expect a crush of new Netbooks to follow. Intel's latest N450 processor and NM10 Express chipset - technology that had been previously referred to as "Pine Trail" - will be used in a new raft of Netbooks that will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Dell, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo and others are expected to either announce new systems before the show or exhibit new models there. Intel said there will be more than 80 new Netbook designs - typically priced around $350 - on the way, with systems coming available by January 4. The Pine Trail design squeezes the graphics function, previously on a separate chip, onto the central processing unit, or CPU, a first for Intel. The result - by decreasing the number of chips from three to two - is a reduction in the overall chip package size by 60 percent. "This is the first monolithic processor with the graphics built in and the memory controller built in," said Anil Nanduri, director, Netbook Marketing at Intel, in an interview. The size of the accompanying NM10 "I/O" chipset has also been reduced, Nanduri said. To the consumer this means better battery life and thinner designs. "We'll see sleeker designs coming into the market and longer battery life," said Nanduri, adding that average power consumption has dropped 20 percent over the previous generation of Atom technology. Read more -here-
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