Netbooks is a market that has taken the whole idea of less is more to another level, very much so when considering potentially power consuming components. The power consumption should be as low as possible and any power saved is a bonus. The Atom processor of today is made with pretty efficient 45nm technology that allows for an operation at maximal 4W, but the whole platform and the chipset used by it is not as optimized.
Intel has been talking about its upcoming netbook platform for some time, a platform called Moorestown where the processor and the chipset will merge into more of a System-on-a-chip solution and more power saving development is planned after that.
Intel has released some additional information on its coming netbook platforms and mentions Medfield, which is the name of Intel’s first 32nm processor for the netbook market. Medfield will replace the Lincroft processor, in 2010, of the Moorestown platform with two different models.
Processor namely has an integrated graphics circuit and according to UBS Securities, Intel will launch two different models where graphics portion has been tweaked for either energy efficient systems (netbooks) or more powerful computers (nettops).
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