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Atom Processor Plans and Products Unveiled

Intel Corporation has just uncovered its new products and features based on the company’s low-power Intel Atom processor family. It also reveals its future plans which will further distinguish the famous netbook category and come up with products for new market segments to expand its PC, laptop, and server product lines. For the past weeks, Intel has released a wide variety of products for a wide range of market. These include a processor and MeeGo software designed for future in-vehicle infotainment of a Chinese carmaker named HawTai Automobile.

The company takes pride in releasing its greater than 50-times platform idle with the company’s next generation Atom processor platform for handheld gadgets like smartphones. Intel has also closed a deal with Sony, Google, and Logitech for the production of Intel-based “Smart TVs” that run Google Android. The Intel Atom processor also powers the Intel Reader and it has lately uncovered the future System on Chip (SoC) Atom-based “Tunnel Creek” that allows other companies to hook up their own custom silicon to Intel’s SoC product.

Furthermore, Intel also discloses Pine Trail, a 14mm razor-thin Canoe Lake innovation platform that runs cooler. It comes 50 percent thinner compared to other netbooks one can find in the market nowadays. And with the Intel Atom platforms ranging from portable and compact netbooks to chic TV gadgets, and innovative tablet designs, Intel Architecture is no doubt bringing genuine innovative products to the market.

Fujitsu MH380 Netbook with Intel Pine Trail

Netbooks were definitely big this year. There were a lot of models to choose from with different brands but with almost the same specs. The netbook segment won’t just be like that since a new platform is coming to the successful Atom, the Pine Trail, and it is running on the Fujitsu MH380.

I know it might sound out of nowhere that the codename for Atom’s next generation platform is Pine Trail but here is the big improvement. The Pine Trail platform uses 2 chips instead of the previous 3 platform. This is done by combining the processor and graphics processing unit (GPU) on a single chip. With this, manufacturers now have the option of squeezing in more battery life or giving netbooks a speed boost. Fujitsu was one of the first to make a netbook on the Pine Trail with the MH380, but users still have to hold off their purchase since it will be launched early 2010. The specifications of the MH380 though have surfaced and it will come in Brown, Ivory, White, and Diamond Black and are designed exquisitely using chrome accents. It will have a 1.66GHz Atom N450 processor with 2GB of memory and 250GB of hard drive space. The usuals are also there like an SDHC card reader, 1.3 megapixel web cam, WiFi, and bluetooth. What’s unique with this netbook is the availability of a scroll wheel right beside the multi-gesture trackpad. It has also a sharing feature where it can connect to an ODD drive (DVD/CD) of home PCs and notebooks through a wireless or USB connection.

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