At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco today, Intel launched a new Intel Atom Developer Program. In other words, the company is trying to attract third party developers to write applications designed for use on netbooks and other devices that use the Intel Atom processor. Eventually Intel will launch an Atom App Store similar […]
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Intel Atom N470 to clock in at 1.83GHz
The Intel Atom N270 and N280 processors have been pretty much standard equipment for netbooks for the past year and a half or so. We’ve known Intel is working on a next generation update for the chipset for a while now, but now there’s a little more news about the company’s plans. According to Fudzilla […]
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MSI confirms plans for touchscreen netbook with Pine Trail CPU
Last week there was a rumor going around that MSI planned to launch a netbook with a convertible touchscreen display and a processor based on Intel’s upcoming Pine Trail-M platform. Today Gizmodo’s Joanna Stern (if the name sounds familiar, it’s because she used to be Laptop Magazine’s “netbook diva”) has received confirmation from MSI. And […]
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Rumor: MSI to launch Pine Trail-M netbook in December
It’s no secret that Intel is on track to launch its next generation Intel Atom processors later this year. What’s a bit less clear is exactly when we’ll start to see these chips show up in netbooks and other products. Because word on the street is that while the new chips will be more energy […]
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Intel Atom N450 pricing revealed?
Intel is scheduled to launch a new Atom N450 processor later this year or early next year. The new chips aren’t expected to be significantly faster than the Atom N270/N280 chips that are currently available, but they should conserve battery life and combine some graphics functions and other features that are normally located on the […]
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Report: Acer, Asus hold off on new netbooks until 2010
Like pretty much every other computer maker (with the exception of Apple), Acer and Asus have released a few netbook models in the first half of 2009. But according to a report in DigiTimes, that’s going to be it for this year. Don’t expect these companies to launch new models before the holidays, because DigiTimes […]
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New Intel Atom chips could be delayed until 2010
Update: Intel says Pine Trail chips are still on track to ship later this year. Whether PC makers will adopt the platform right away remains to be seen. Atom N450 chips will be more expensive at launch than Atom N270 processors Intel had been expected to launch its next-generation Intel Atom chips, code-named Pine Trail […]
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Next-gen Atom chips will be cooler, offer better graphics
More details are emerging about Intel’s next-generation Atom processors, codenamed Pineview. Fudzilla has a series of reports on the upcoming Atom chips. First, the site reports that both the new chips will dissipate heat better than today’s Atom chips, which will allow nettop computers using the new Atom processors to be passively cooled. In other […]
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Intel Atom Pineview roadmap leaked?
Intel still hasn’t gone into detail about its upcoming Intel Atom processors, codenamed “pineview.” But hot on the heels of a rumor that a new Pinetrail-based Intel Atom N450 chip later this year, comes a report of leaked product roadmap. According to HKEPC’s “industry sources,” Intel is planning three different chips as part of the […]
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Intel to launch Atom N450 “Pine Trail” around October
Intel’s next generation Atom processor will be out in October at the earliest, according to DigTimes. The site attributes this time frame to “industry sources,” but DigiTimes has a pretty good track record of finding honest to goodness industry sources that know what they’re talking about, so there’s a decent chance this is real. According […]