Report: Atom N470 1.83 GHz Due Early 2010
All new Atoms coming soon to a netbook near you.
We've been hearing (and waiting) for a big update to Intel's Atom platform. While Nvidia's Ion does give the Atom a completely different character, Intel is still the one who will decide the direction of the next-generation of netbooks and nettops.
There's been a lot of talk of the upcoming Pineview Atom processor, which integrates graphics and memory controller and combines with a southbridge to form the Pine Trail platform.
As long as Intel isn't delayed in delivering Pine Trail, we should be seeing the first of the new generation this year.
Current Atom chips found in most machines run at around 1.6 GHz, which will likely be the same clock frequency for the Pineview Atom N450 whenever it launches. The new platform will get its performance increase from the updated and integrated architecture, which will also realize power savings.
According to French site blogeee.net, Intel will next year roll out the Atom N470, which cranks the clock speed up to 1.83 GHz. The report says that the Atom N470 will have thermal design power of 6.5 W, which is a bit more than the 2.5 W for the N270, but should see an overall savings as it does away with the separate memory controller and graphics chip.
Hopefully we'll be seeing Pine Trail soon, and even faster parts by CES in January 2010.

Crysis, I would be happy for 720p playback
Crysis, I would be happy for 720p playback
Considering it's replacing the 945 chipset/MCH, it can only get better.
But it's no were near the power saving mainly from the 780G graphics
From what I read, the Larrabee isn't anything like the Atom. It's a real x86 processor that executes x86 instructions, not decodes them and executes another type of code. I'm not crazy about moving x86 further out; it's a bad instruction set that needed to die years ago. Intel tried, but the marketplace choice x86 over Itanium, at least for the mainstream.
Atom pretty much had to be x86, or no one would care. It needs to be able to run standard code. I don't know why you think they should have used something else, but clearly you're ignoring the importance of compatibility to market success. And it has attained very strong market acceptance. The main error is the damn supporting chipset. It sucks too much.
They never where a desktop chipset, and neither today.
They mainly are present in your pocket! About every person on the planet has ARM in their pockets, or at least seen it in the form of a cellphone, tamagotchi, Gameboy, etc...
Similar priced? I either haven't seen what you have or you think netbooks are more than 350. Last time I saw the yukon platform it was a $600 laptop but with the specs more or less of a netbook. I wish AMD would actually compete in the actual netbook range, instead of this "super-portable" segment that I would never buy.
I looked it up a little...according to Wikipedia it's more like Atom than Pentium, but there are still differences. From what I gather Larrabee's real brags are as a GPGPU rather than just graphics :\. I never rarely bother reading the really in-depth ground level tech specs like how each core uses and shares its cache or access RAM... they could use paper clips and hot-glue for all I care, as long as they perform well in real-world apps and have good support I'm happy with them.