Major Intel chip upgrade coming to Netbooks – Pine Trail
Intel is set to announce the biggest makeover for its Atom processor since it was introduced back in the spring of 2008. And PC makers are ready with new Netbook models, some due before the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show in January. Intel, which is already on the record saying that the Pine Trail Atom is shipping this quarter, has made integration one its biggest themes in 2010 and beyond. Its Arrandale Core i series of processors for mainstream laptops, due by early next year, will also combine the graphics chip (GPU) with the CPU. And future generations of the Atom processor will be even more highly integrated.
Inside new Netbooks will beat Intel’s latest “Pine Trail” Atom processor. This watershed design will squeeze the graphics function–previously on a separate chip–into the central processing unit, or CPU, a first for Intel. And what does that mean to consumers? “Better battery life. But performance more than anything,” Intel executive vice president Sean Maloney said
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