INTEL'S CEDAR TRAIL CHIPS TO HAVE DOUBLE GRAPHICS POWER

The Intel Atom Pine Trail chips are due to be released on January 11. These chips have processor, graphics and memory functions integrated into a single chip. Pine Trail processors are meant to reduce power consumption. They are unlikely to give a performance boost. But in 2011 or so, Intel plans to launch yet another line of processors code-named Cedar Trail. According to sources, the Cedar Trail processors will considerably improve the overall performance of the laptop.

The Cedar Trail chips will be based on the 32nm process, the Pine Trail processors, on the other hand, are based on the 45nm process. These processors are expected to deliver twice the graphics performance of Pine Trail processors. That should make them capable of handling 1080 p HD video content. But playing GPU-intensive 3D games will still be out of question.

WILL INTEL'S UPCOMING CEDAR TRAIL PLATFORM SUPPORT HD VIDEO PLAYBACK?

Intel doesn’t normally talk about unreleased products, but bloggers do. Some rumors doing the rounds suggest that the successor to the Intel Atom Pine Trail platform would be known by the name Cedar Trail. There is no confirmation from Intel yet, but now it seems that more details have emerged.

Unofficial sources claim that the Cedar Trail platform could be based on a 32nm process. The Cedar Trail chips are expected to support DDR3 1066 RAM, HD Video and DirectX 10.1 standard. The platform is expected to be released in 2011 but the processors may not be available until at least 2013.

If the Cedar chips do support HD video playback, they would considerably improve the performance of netbooks. The current generation of Atom processors have very limited HD video capabilities and the upcoming Pine Trail processors won’t improve the situation much either as they are meant to consume less power than the existing Atom processors with n

INTEL'S PINEVIEW PROCESSORS TO BE RELEASED IN Q4 OF 2009

Intel’s next-generation Atom processors, dubbed Pineview, will be released in the last quarter of this year. Netbooks running on these processors are expected to hit the stores during Q1 2010.

The Pineview processors are based on the Pine Trail two-chip platform. These processors have a CPU, GPU and memory controller on the same chip. They are also integrated with Intel’s Tiger Pint I/O. Moving from a 3 chip design to a 2 chip design will make the netbooks more power efficient and even enable fanless netbook designs. Another advantage of a 2 chip platform is that it helps in lowering the costs.

INTEL'S N470 PINE TRAIL CPU CLOCKS 1.83GHz

Intel has unveiled two Atom processors based on its Pine Trail platform - the N450 and the N470.

The N450 is relatively slower with a clock speed of 1.66GHz. The recently unveiled N470 is much faster at 1.83GHz clock speed. This processor is expected to be used in select netbooks in the first quarter of next year.

Like N450, the N470 is a single core processor supporting hyper-threading. This Pine Trail chipset comes with a TDP of 6.5 W which is much better than the TDP of N270 Atom processors common in netbooks. Another plus point of the Pine Trail Atom processors is that they include an integrated IGP on the same silicon. More details are expected to be revealed at Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF) scheduled to be held from September 22 to 24.

INTEL'S X25-M SSD NOT SO GOOD AFTER ALL?

Those cool X25-M SSD's that Intel has been selling for the past couple of months, yeah the ones with the huge price tags which Intel has cut in recent weeks. Well according to the dudes and dudettes over at PC Perspective, the new drives may not be as good as we think.

According to them, the same type of software that they have in the drives to prevent the every day wear and tear such as fragmentation and such is the direct cause of it.

However they claim that this only happens under excessive use and that most light users will not experience it. As far as a fix, the only thing that is known now is to completely wipe out the drive and load the info on it once again. That is until Intel releases a firmware update to fix the problem.=.

INTEL'S LARRABEE CHIP TECHNOLOGY – GPU’S FROM INTEL

Intel's Larrabee chip technology will assist Intel take home a spot in the high-end graphics card marketplace. Larrabee will be a stencil for a series of chips. Unlike processors which have 2 to 4 cores, Larrabee chips will have somewhere in the range of 12 to 48. AMD and NVidia already have graphics processor chips with quite a few hundred cores, so Intel is facing considerable competition. AMD and NVidia obviously say Intel's graphics chips will not be talented to outperform their own. They tip out flaws, such as the fact that Intel will be using software to complete a lot of the rendering. Besides the recital challenge, Intel also needs to match the manufacturing cost and power utilization of current GPUs.

INTEL’S QUAD CORE BOOKINGS BEGIN

Australian PC manufacturer Pioneer Computers is captivating preorders for notebooks based on an unreleased quad-core mobile processor from the house of Intel, saying the chips are extremely close to being obtainable. Intel's 2.53GHz quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor is promoted as a A$1,449 (US$1,390) promote to Pioneer Computers' Dream Book Style 9008 notebook. Dazzling the chips expected location at the top end of Intel's mobile product line, the asking price of promote is more than the notebook's A$1,399 basic price. The quad-core chip is not short listed on Intel's very recent price tag and will be the company's 1st quad-core mobile chip that packs 12M bytes of on-chip cache, as per Pioneer.

ITS INTEL’S TIME TO SHOW OFF ITS 5-PACKS

Intel Corporation today revealed 5 new Intel Atom processors and Intel Centrino Atom processor technology especially for the Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and integrated computing solutions. The technology package consists of the Intel Atom processor (formerly code-named "Silverthorne") plus a uni-chip with integrated graphics named the Intel System Controller Hub that provides the PC-like capabilities, non compromised Internet practice and uninterrupted long battery life in smaller devices that can slice up in to your pocket. Manufacturers all around the world are planning to ship this Intel-based Mobile Internet Devices beginning this summer. MIDs are provides a true mobile device that enable the paramount Internet experience in pocket able devices.

INTEL’S RESPONSE TO OLPC OF AMD REACHES 2ND GENERATION

Intel has revealed a new edition of its Classmate mini-notebook reference design. Now targeting purchasers and schoolchildren both, and running either Windows XP or Linux, the device has an in built 30GB hard drive, an altered touchpad and keyboard, webcam, and a 9-inch screen. The original classmate debuted in March 2007 as a part of Intel's "World Ahead" agenda aimed at school children in promising markets. Obtainable with a 2GB SSD (solid-state drive) packing Windows XP, or a 1GB SSD packing Linux, the Classmate was extensively viewed as Intel's response to the AMD-based OLPC device. The 2nd-generation Classmate will be sold openly to the public.

INTEL’S ON THE LAUNCH SPREE

Intel's Centrino 2 platform is calendared for launch in the next quarter. Sure, they have little to worry about in the high-end Core 2 DUO and Quad-core Core 2 Extreme as they will explicitly win the performance coronet, but what about the entry-level contributions? Just to make sure that they don't lose in the entry-level notebook market, they have some novel Celeron M offerings with clock speed tuned higher and 667 MHz FSB.

Intel will release 2 new Celeron M CPUs for the Centrino 2 platform in the form of Celeron M 585 and Celeron M 575 - clocking at 2.16GHz and 2GHz respectively. Both will attribute FSB speed of 667MHz and TDP of 31W.

INTEL’S ALL NEW WI-MAX/WI-FI MODULES

Speculating what's next for wireless modules which seats neatly inside your notebook’s mini PCIe slot? Well, Intel has just discharged details on their upcoming wireless modules based on the Centrino2 platform.

The Echo Peak WI MAX/Wi-Fi and Shirley Peak Wi-Fi modules will initiate shipping to laptop producers in the 2nd and 3rd quarter of 2008. With Echo Peak and Shirley Peak make public, Intel anticipates quicker 802.11n Wi-Fi adoption. The Echo Peak wireless modules has supports both Wi-MAX and 802.11n Wi-Fi and will be available with the price tag of $43 to $54 per unit. The $19-$30 Shirley Peak module will support only the N-Wi-Fi protocol.

With Centrino 2 release in the subsequent quarter, it is expected that those laptops will report for over 50% of Intel's consignments by end of 2008. Concurring to reports, the penetration rate of 802.11n devic