A new single-core Atom expected in early 2010

[Sadashiva]

"They begin to emerge more and new details about the next generation of Atom CPUs, the processor that Intel has, for now, the market dictated Law Netbook"


Although many ask aloud an Atom dual core is optimized for mobile use, Intel, even in 2010 to focus on the development of a single core solution, relegating the solutions for dual-core desktop the realities low cost.

The codename of the next solution will be Pineview, and will have as main characteristic, the memory controller and graphics engine on the inside while retaining the same 45nm manufacturing process at the current solutions. Intel has repeatedly stressed that, at least for the foreseeable future, the choice of the holding is to limit the solutions to dual core for the desktop market, holding more than enough for a core product such as a Netbook. If the first models of Pineview will be presented on the market by the end of this year, these models are only a dual-core, waiting for the single-core solutions will be necessary to wait for the new year.

With the new Intel processor renews its own platform, effectively removing the northbridge. Integrate within Pineview memory controller and graphics controller, the CPU will be accompanied only by a Southbridge (Intel, which in this case identified as a TigerPoint I / O: the Santa Clara giant will abandon its own three-chip solution in for a product with just two chips.

[Aldous]

certainly good news is the desire to integrate memory controller and graphics controller in a single package .. But a single core solution seems too good .. For a Netbook ..