It was just a few days ago that we posted some news on the upcoming Asus Eee PC 1oo5P/PE and now Intel has officially announced the new Pine Trail Atoms we’ve been waiting on. In the line-up we’re seeing an N450 designed for netbook use as well as a single-core D410 and dual-core D510 made for nettops (that we’ve seen before) and a NM10 Express chipset. All the processors have a clockspeed of 1.66Ghz are said to use 20% less power than the current-gen Atoms.
As said in various reports, the new Pineview processors don’t give much of a performance improvement over the N270 and N280 even though they contain the memory controller and graphics chipset on the die as well as the processing cores. At least the inclusion of the graphics on the chipset makes the Eee PC 1005PE last for 10 hours on the one charge. We should be seeing more of these chips at CES 2010.
