Report: Intel Pinetrail Pushed to 2010
The second coming of Atom will be next year.
The Intel Atom is a small, lightweight and extremely power efficient processor. Only through outside help from the chipset does the Atom gain extra abilities.
We know what the Nvidia Ion can do for the Atom, but of course Intel wants to keep it all in the family. That's where Intel's Pinetrail comes in, which integrates graphics in with the CPU.
According to what Digitimes Research senior analyst Joanne Chien has gathered from vendors, Intel has decided to delay the launch of the new CPU to early 2010, "so as to avoid impacting the netbook market in second-half 2009."
With netbook worldwide shipments already projected to be double what they were from 2008, there could be reason for Intel not to want to rock the boat.
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Trying to cut nVidia out there. Well, NVIDIA can always just go on with VIA CPUs for it's updated ION platform. They can put the hurt on Pinetrail IF they can show OEMs that they can do more for the same price. A cheap netbook that can watch HD content and play the SIMS, and possibly WoW, is what will catch alot of peoples attention.
If it could run crysis, i'll buy it
This is why good competition is needed in any market! Nvidia may be selling ION platforms but the core of each of those is an Intel Atom. If VIA or AMD came out with a real competitor to the Atom, Intel would release the Pinetrail in a heartbeat.
Is the summary intentionally a reference to Fallout 3..."The second coming of Atom"
I am a fan of Intel but jesus do their graphics suck. They ought to just let the Ion give the Atom the help it needs.
If it could run crysis, i'll buy it
dude, its a freaking netbook! like those Einsteins who want to install gentoo on their netbook.
it wasn't designed for it.
imagine a box made specifically to play wow and watch HD videos and lesser work loads, the spec is set down by the software, and not by the hardware
and then advertise it as such with actual usage hours (like say 5 hours of wow), man that user base would just explode
In other words, "We found out that we can keep pocketing money with the current solution."
These atoms are crap. There are plenty of AMD processors released years ago with similar efficiency and power.
people are still asking too much from these small form factors... or rather, they're unwilling to pay prices that reflect the investment in the technology. i don't blame them tho, when these companies are so quick to inflate their prices on tech they produce for pennies on the dollar. with what's available on the market now, it is impossible to produce a product that does what everyone wants and still has a battery life extend passed 3 hours.
[citation]The Intel Atom is a small, lightweight and extremely power efficient processor.[/citation]
sorry to nitpick but didn't toms do a review a while back that concluded a core 2 was more efficient
It's all about money. Good, for NVidia's ION can be sold a little longer, giving them more profit.
Good for Intel, because they have more time to come up with something similar to ION's platform, but way more energy efficient, and perhaps hope to get it on the market when the market comes alive again!
haha, intel wants to make inbred processors!! :-P
Who cares? Dual core 330 Atom with hyperthreading overclocked to 1.9 easily gets beat by single core 1.9 Sempron and old Celeron. Why is there so much hype for Atom? It can't even play Blue Ray at high resolution!