Comments on: Intel details next-generation ‘Pine Trail’ Atom platform, intros updated ‘Moblin’ UI

By: Technology blog » VIA’s 3000-series Nano CPUs promise longer battery, increased performance

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:35:16 +0000

[...] The new processors are currently available to system builders and are expected to show up in retail markets in the first quarter of next year, presumably to take on Intel’s upcoming line of PineTrail processors. [...]

By: Technology blog » Rumor: Intel Atom N450 (Pine Trail) to launch on January 3rd?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:05:09 +0000

[...] is reporting that Intel’s new Atom N450 chipset – codenamed Pine Trail (see previous coverage here) — will officially launch on January [...]

By: Rumor: Intel Atom N450 (Pine Trail) to launch on January 3rd?

Rumor: Intel Atom N450 (Pine Trail) to launch on January 3rd? — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:08:33 +0000

[...] is reporting that Intel’s new Atom N450 chipset – codenamed Pine Trail (see previous coverage here) — will officially launch on January [...]

By: Looks like it’s Splitsville for NVIDIA and Intel

Looks like it’s Splitsville for NVIDIA and Intel — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:13:06 +0000

[...] recall earlier this year that Intel announced its new “PineTrail” Atom platform, which shifts system boards from a 3-chip architecture down to a 2-chip architecture. Apparently [...]

By: Intel no longer accepting Z-series Atom orders

Intel no longer accepting Z-series Atom orders — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:00:26 +0000

[...] makes sense, I suppose, as the Z-series (Silverthorne) has been around the longest and Intel’s announced that its upcoming Pine Trail platform will be available in Q4 of this year. That, and it’s [...]

By: New Atom N450 CPU due in October

New Atom N450 CPU due in October — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:40:47 +0000

[...] N450 is codenamed “Pine Trail” — see previous coverage here — and represents a shift from a 3-chip to a 2-chip platform architecture, with the graphics [...]

By: Pop

Pop — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:16:10 +0000

Actually I was talking about about chips as fish and chips!

can anyone explain what potatoes chips has to do with PC?

By: Pop

Pop — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:14:45 +0000

Why don’t we merge all in one chip?

I know I am a genius!

By: David

David — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:47:42 +0000

Intel will keep the Atom crippled and hog tie manufacturer’s into poor screen resolution etc. to prevent erosion of their greedy over-priced laptop parts. Why isn’t someone else waking up to fill this void – where are you Via, NVidia, and especially AMD. Teach Intel a lesson!

By: Scottie

Scottie — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:10:30 +0000

I have to say I agree with BrotherDust. Fact is, Intel is playing hardball with Nvidia by pulling the whole “volume discount” schtick and charging more to OEMs who want to pair an Atom with Ion. I’d buy a netbook right now except for the often crappy video playback, which is a direct result of Intel’s crappy graphics hardware/drivers.

Plus, Intel will NOT make Pine Trail that much faster, because they’re about to release all the new CULV procs as part of their “4-tier” laptop processor scheme. If Atom becomes “fast enough”, netbooks will eat into sales of slightly higher-end machines.

There is one hope that I can see: the rumored Acer Aspire One 571 with an integrated Quartics video en/decoder. Now, a netbook with a dedicated low-power video chip and good battery life would be perfect. Heck, I’d buy 2!

By: BrotherDust

BrotherDust — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:40:15 +0000

After reading this, I came up with the following hypothesis:
Even though the graphics are moving into the cpu, I suspect it will be the same crap that we’ve seen before (i.e. no good video decoding, etc). And it’s going to make it a little more difficult for other (NVidia) vendors to provide a decent graphics solution, especially in a totally embedded platform.

This is an exciting new platform, but given Intel’s past with graphics capability, this one is going to be a stinker for people that want to use it as a htpc.