Intel’s power efficient budget processor Atom will appear in a new suit in the fourth quarter 2009. The 45nm Pineview processor will be the first processor on the budget market sporting an integrated memory controller and graphics circuit, which Intel claims will make it even smaller and less power consuming. By moving the northbridge on-die it reduces the circuit size of the platform with up to 70% while lowering the power consumption by up to 50%.
The platform will be called PineTrail-D where the Pineview processor is paired with the Tigerpoint I/O circuits with DDR2-800 support.
The first Pineview processor will be dual-core appearing at the end of the year, while the first single-core version will appear in the first quarter 2010.
How Intel’s new Atom platform will measure up to the competition is hard to say today, but it is not just AMD and VIA’s platforms that it will be go up against. They also have to battle NVIDIA’s Ion platform. Even if Pineview will appear with an integrated graphics circuits, the performance it sports will hardly be very impressive, but the power consumption will be hard to beat.
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