Intel Reveals New ''Canoe Lake'' Platform
Earlier today, Qualcomm announced the first of its dual-core Snapdragon CPUs. Not to be outdone, Intel announced it's own dual-core Atoms and details a new platform that will result in some super slim netbooks.
Earlier today, Qualcomm announced the first of its dual-core Snapdragon CPUs. Not to be outdone, Intel has details plans for the company's Atom line, which will see netbooks shrink to just half an inch thick.
There are plenty of 'the world's slimmest' laptops out there but Intel took things to a whole new level in Taiwan today. The company showed off it's new dual-core Atom processors and although it was fairly quiet about the speed of the new Pine Trail chips, word on the street is that they'll be comparable to the dual-core Atoms currently available for desktops.
While the Pine Trail N series is interesting, it's no where near as interesting as Canoe Lake, Intel's new platform that will cut the size of netbooks considerably. On hand to give us an idea of just how fabulous Canoe Lake will be once it's launched was a 14mm thick laptop. That's right, it's just a smidge over half an inch thick.
Canoe Lake uses thermal cooling for Pine Trail netbooks instead of the traditional fan method. The laptop on display is said to be just a reference model for other manufacturers so while it's likely we won't see anything this thin for a while, it'll be interesting to see what manufacturers do with this.
We hear netbooks packing dual-core atoms will be available in time for the holidays and while it's not solid, Intel says it expects partners to be utilizing the Canoe Lake platform by then too.

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Thermal cooling ?
Thermal cooling ?
This is what I'd say netbook owners want most, a book that can play 1080p without a hiccup, not a book they can snap in half.
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They tend to be named after an area that they were developed in. Canoe Lake seems like an area in Oregon since thats where one of Intels biggest FABs is located.
Sure. But a dual core Athlon II can't match Atom in battery life. Atoms game is not pure performance. Thats Core. Atoms is ULV. And so far nothing matches Atom at its performance and power usage.
I can see the applications of this for more than just Netbooks too. Being able to make something that thin would be q feat and probably work to produce very light and portable tablets that can be used in the science and medical field over a WiMAX network.
Now if anything, this is also powered by Intels Moorestown based Atom and if so, didn't THG do a review of the CPU and they said it was capable of decoding dual 1080P HD streams?
That's not true, really. Core was not designed for pure performance, it was designed for performance/watt, and easily exceeds the Atom in that category.
Atom was not designed for performance per watt. By those standards, it's a failure. Another very important component is that it had to be very cheap to make. The Core line did not have as stringent parameters in that department.
So, the Core line offers much better performance per watt - that's what it was designed for. The Atom is low wattage and low cost, with performance being, at best, a tertiary consideration.
Im going to assume something along the lines of a peltier device maybe?, one of a low enough power rating would be able to work way more effectively than a fan if cooled properly
Intel fanboys will tout Nehalem's occasional 10-20% superiority in real-world benchies over AMD as a "vast lead", and yet will go buy an Atom CPU that's comparable to a Pentium III. This is not progress.