Intel 'Pine Trail' Atom Platform Unveiled

• Anandtech: Intel Atom D510: Pine Trail Boosts Performance, Cuts Power:
  
  

  "First, new vs. old Atom. With a real world performance improvement approaching 10% on the desktop, I’m happy with the performance of Pine Trail. Short of Intel introducing a brand new architecture, Atom isn’t going to get much better, so the fact that we’re getting anything is worth being happy about.
  
  The impact of the on-die memory controller is noticeable on overall system performance. As I said earlier, my Pine Trail testbed was snappier and more responsive than my older Atom machines. It’s by no means fast, but it’s noticeably faster than before.
  
  Power consumption is also much improved thanks to Intel ditching the archaic 945 chipset. Although the impact on battery life in netbooks is going to be more exciting than drawing less power at the wall. Pine Trail is worth waiting for."

  
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• HotHardware: Asus Eee PC1005PE, Atom N450 Pinetrail Launch:
  
  

  "The new Intel Atom N450 and its netbook platform vehicle that we tested, the Asus Eee PC 1005PE, offered a stronger general computing experience versus Intel's legacy single-core Atom variants. This was easily seen in each and every one of our stock benchmarks like PCMark Vantage, SiSoft SANDRA and 3DMark06. Where the Atom N450 fell a little flat was an area that Intel has had its work cut out for themselves for a long time now - that being video and 3D rendering. Though the Atom N450 offers a better general computing experience for the Asus Eee PC 1005PE, we were left wanting a bit more on the multimedia side of the equation, with the system's inability to handle even 720p content and struggling occasionally with certain flash video streams. Finally, what was more than impressive was that, even with its somewhat higher general computing performance, this Eee PC lasted longer on a battery charge than any other netbook we've tested to date."

  
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• TechReport: Intel's next-gen Atom arrives in Asus' Eee PC 1005PE netbook:
  
  

  "Pine Trail's pseudo-system-on-chip architecture is quite a departure from the first Atom platform and an impressive achievement for Intel. Not only has the company managed to drop the number of chips and dramatically reduce the platform's footprint, but it has also lowered power consumption by a healthy margin. Those improvements should make it easier for manufacturers to churn out slimmer and lighter netbooks with better battery life than ever before.
  
  The coming wave of next-gen netbooks isn't going to be any faster than the last generation, though. Intel has done little to improve the platform's application performance and basic feature set, opting not to include the sort of advanced video decode logic that could have made Pine Trail much more capable than Menlow. At least the CPU's digital display output supports resolutions up to 1366x768, which we hope means we'll see more 11.6" or larger systems based on the Atom."

  
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