Comments on: Intel to launch next gen “Pineview” Atom processors this year

By: Intel will Atom mit Grafik verschmelzen « 11k2

Intel will Atom mit Grafik verschmelzen « 11k2 — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:45:09 +0000

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By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:31:41 +0000

Looks like I'm leaning towards AMD's Neo platform more and more every day. I'd buy the HP dv2 if it handled streaming video better.

Hopefully by the end of this year or early next year there will be a dual-core AMD Neo that'll handle web video better and I'll finally own a netbook.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:52:36 +0000

This looks like a strike against nVidia. I doubt this will allow for much faster speeds since placing the components on the same chip will cause serious thermal issues. I think if they do this, it will allow AMD an opening in the market, provided they can get their power consumption issues resolved.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:31:41 +0000

Looks like I'm leaning towards AMD's Neo platform more and more every day. I'd buy the HP dv2 if it handled streaming video better.

Hopefully by the end of this year or early next year there will be a dual-core AMD Neo that'll handle web video better and I'll finally own a netbook.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:52:36 +0000

By: BoloMKXXVIII

BoloMKXXVIII — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:50:32 +0000

The only things this processor will do is make it more difficult for nVidia and be cheaper to produce for Intel. Both things help their bottom line without providing any benefit to their customers.

By: benny90

benny90 — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:31:00 +0000

Doubt theres a chance for that… There's a reason these chips can only do so much, and its called MONEY. When they can get 3-4 times the money for their higher end chips than these they have no desire to make these work much better than they already do. One thing they can do though is to make them more energy efficient and thats what were seeing.

By: TrackSmart

TrackSmart — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:31:16 +0000

Agreed. I don't care if it loads up MS Office 4 seconds faster or gives me 10 more minutes of battery life. What it needs to do is handle streaming video, in all of it's formats, without stuttering – to give the full internet experience including entertainment.

Otherwise, there's little to get excited about.

By: ek4zone

ek4zone — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:53:23 +0000

wow, nice information…

By: MonkeyKing1969

MonkeyKing1969 — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:38:28 +0000

This Pineview needs to at least double the graphical throughput to make me care.

It all well and good to have it smaller, cheaper, and cooler; but Intel need boosted graphical performance as well. Bigger screens with higher resolutions combined with 'standard browsing' also needing the ability to handle video on the web, this Pineview need more power to keep Netbooks doing what is their minimum requirement.

Netbooks have to be able to "do" the net from my point of view. And, now browsing is getting more processor intensive with streaming video & audio demanding far more of even basic systems. Pineview need to up to the job, and this year is not a moment too soon.

By: erlik

erlik — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:51:58 +0000

The problem with flash video is that it doesn't use the GPU video acceleration, so it consumes a lot of CPU power: http://www.tech-no-media.com/2009/05/there-is-p…

I hope for Intel that Pinneview as enough power to play flash video in full screen, or that adobe adds support for the pinneview GPU.