Pine Trail-M Atom 2010 is smaller than current Atom processors
Intel has in mind to roll out Pine Trail-M mobile netbook platform in the Q1 2010. Good news is that the chip is going to be around 64% smaller than the current slew of Atom processors. Interestingly, it needs less power and its somewhat more cheaper to manufacture.
It is commendable that Intel managed to bring down the package footprint by 64 percent. Reason behind this is the fact that it has switched over from three chips to (CPU, Northbridge and Southbridge) to just two chips (CPU and Southbridge) in the Pine View processors.
When measured with Mobile Mark 05 office productivity Pine Trail-M platform will get you 20 percent lower power reduction, which in other words means even better battery life in Windows XP.
- reduced motherboard realeastate: 2174mm(Atom)->773mm(Pineview).
- Better memory support from N270’s DDR2 533 to DDR2 667
- GPU core frequencies increased from 133MHz to 200MHz
- PCB design now uses only 4 layers compared to 6 layers, which was previously used by Intel Atom
- TDP dropped from 8W to 7W
Commentary: Although the overall size will be smaller, but it is highly unlikely that manufactures are going to produce smaller netbooks. It is all about the market demand and most of the consumer want bigger displays and spacious keyboards.
[via fudzilla]
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What about SPEED? I just set up a Vaio X laptop for a client and it was very sleek but too slow at 2GHz. Any news on faster atom procesors or 64bit Atom processors?
Atom N470 will be marginally faster. However, do not consider it as core duo or core 2 duo equivalent in terms of performance.
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