Intel's Pine Trail Out Q4, Possibly October
Intel’s next iteration of its hugely popular Atom processor, codenamed Pine Trail, is now slated for a Q4 release. According to recent rumors, it's possible that we could see the processor as early as October.
Intel’s next iteration of its hugely popular Atom processor, codenamed Pine Trail, is now slated for a Q4 release. According to recent rumors, it's possible that we could see the processor as early as October.
Digitimes today reports that Intel is scheduled to phase out its Atom N270 CPU by launching its successor--the Atom N450--for netbooks in October at the earliest. Citing anonymous industry sources, DT says that Intel will issue last order notice for the Atom N270 in the first quarter of 2010, and the CPU will phase out before the end of the H1 2010
This fits in with earlier reports in May which said we’d see Atom’s Pine Trail chip with on-chip graphics, and the Tiger Point chipset (replacing the presently ubiquitous Atom N270 and 945GSE combination) "after September." When we published the news last month, most of you were uninterested and more eager to hear about machines running on Nvidia's Ion. Now that Nvidia has at least 20 manufacturers signed up and ready to produce a plethora of netbooks, nettops, all-in-ones and more, are you guys still unexcited by Pine Trail? Let us know in the comments!
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It all depends on what Tiger Point can do.
Yes, Intel are correct to a degree in that Ion is overkill simply because the core CPU itself only comes alive when you offload any heavy-duty processing to something else, but that being said it's no excuse to ship an underpowered graphics solution with an underpowered processor.
I'm not saying Atom should be a performance giant, but if it's targeted at internet devices and basic office tasks then it and its graphics should be able to storm through it, and these days that does require a bit more power than Atom currently offers.