We just got a confirmation that Pineview D with both single and dual core Atom CPU can be passively cooled. Intel claims to its partners that the thermal dissipation is about 50 percent lower than the Atom 2008 original platform.

Due to this, the fanless systems are desirable and possible and Intel believes that this will result with a lower build of material cost and since the system without moving parts is possible, this will be the opportunity to save a dollar or two on the future repairs as fans, do break after some time.

Overall the new Pineview D platform won't have much higher benchmark scores, but it will bring the fanless systems with 50 percent of the TDP of the first generation Atoms and fanless system brings very quiet computing to your office or living room.

Atoms faster than 1.66GHz might happen after Q2 2010, but this is something that would undoubtedly increase the TDP as well.