Along with its neato Moblin 2.0 netbook OS, Intel’s also laid in more detail out what the next generation of Atom looks like—Pineview integrates the CPU, GPU and memory controller onto one chip, making the platform cheaper and less power-hungry overall.
As Ars’ Jon Stokes points out, this is new territory for Intel that “arguably pushes Atom into SoC territory.” It has some implications for Nvidia’s Ion platform. Not only are Intel’s graphics built into the Atom CPU, but Nvidia’s probably going to have major problems from a price standpoint, since Intel can drop the cost of the Atom platform (which it sells for $US25) down even further. Unbundling the Atom CPU—like to pair it with Nvidia’s 9400m for the Ion platform—costs $US45.
Never a dull moment in netbook land. [Ars]
matt
May 22, 2009 at 3:03 PM
good idea, hope they make an even smaller form factor one for phones. nivida should stop their bitching about intel and just make their own x86 platform so they don’t have to rely on intel,
Report Permalinksure intel own the rights to x86 but only if intel refuses to license it to nvida should nvida start bitching and waving the anti trust flag.