Intel Plans “Fast” Transition to Next-Generation Atom Platform.

Intel to Reveal More Details About Pine Trail Platform on December 21

[11/07/2009 01:31 PM]
by Anton Shilov

Intel Corp. will reveal more details about its next-generation Intel Atom platform for netbooks and nettops on the 21^st of December ’09 and computers makers will launch actual systems powered by Intel Atom N450 and derivatives on the 4^th of January 2010, just in time to show them on the Consumer Electronics Show.

“Intel is planning for a fast transition to Pine Trail. To generate excitement for the platform ahead of launch, Intel is planning a press release in late December publicly disclosing the details of the platform,” an Intel document seen by X-bit labs reads.

Intel Pine Trail platform includes next-generation Atom “Pineview” processor with improved performance, integrated graphics core, built-in DDR2 memory controller, x86-64 capability, a new core-logic set as well as a Broadcom video decoding processor

According to sources close to Intel, there will be several next-gen Atom “Pineview”chips for netbooks and nettops unveiled:

Intel Atom N450: single-core with Hyper-Threading support, 1.66GHz, 512KB cache, x86-64, BGA437 package, $63 price-point;
Intel Atom D510: dual-core with Hyper-Threading support, 1.66GHz, 1MB cache, x86-64, BGA437 package, $63 price-point;
Intel Atom D410: single-core with Hyper-Threading support, 1.66GHz, 512KB cache, x86-64, BGA437 package, $43 price-point;

Intel did not comment on the news-story.

Tags: Intel, Pineview, Pine Trail

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What's the difference between the N450 and the D410? The specs shown are exactly the same.

Perhaps the D410 doesn't have Hyper-Threading even though its listed here?