Intel’s next-gen Pine Trail Atom processors officially announced

December 20th, 2009 | Category: Gadget Corner

Get ready for the next generation of netbooks and nettops: Intel’s just officially announced the Pine Trail Atom N450, D410, and D510, along with the NM10 Express chipset, and we should see over 80 machines with the 45-nanometer chips at CES 2010. Nothing too surprising about the 1.66GHz chips themselves, which integrate the memory controller and Intel graphics directly onto the CPU die: the N450 is targeted at netbooks, while the single-core D410 and dual-core D510 are designed for nettops, and each chip should use about 20 percent less ability than its predecessor. That was borne out in our review of the N450-based ASUS Eee PC 1005PE, which got 10 hours of battery life in regular use, but unfortunately

we didn’t experience any performance improvements by the familiar N270 and N280. That jibes with other reports we’ve heard, but we’ll wait to tryout some more machines before we break out the frowny face permanently — for now, check out the full press release below.

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