Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/09/intel_pineview_mid_q4_release/
Next-gen Atom set back to Q4
Timed to fuel Xmas netbook binge?
Posted in Hardware, 9th February 2009 16:31 GMT
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Intel's next-gen netbook-centric mobile Atom, codenamed 'Pineview', won't appear until mid-way through Q4, the chip giant's latest roadmap reveals.
So far, it was believed that the part would debut mid-2009, probably early in Q3, but Pineview appears to have slipped a quarter and a half, if a roadmap posted [1] by Japanese-language site PCWatch is to be believed.
Usually, it can be, and the rumours spreading about Pineview's speeds and feeds suggest it'll be worth waiting for - certainly more so than the stop-gap 'Diamondville' Atom, the new 1.67GHz N280, which will be appearing in netbooks very shortly.
Pineview is expected [2] to contain its own memory controller and graphics core. The latter's said to be a 200MHz version of the 133MHz GMA 950 core that's currently found in Atom-based netbooks.
Other features will come from the other - as yet unknown- chips that make up Intel's 'Pine Trail' mobile platform. ®