Intel still plans to launch Pine Trail-M mobile netbook platform for 2010 and beyond in Q1 2010 and we managed to get some additional details to paint a better picture of the upcoming Atom replacement.

The platform is significantly smaller compared to Intel's netbook 08 platform. It needs less power and it is cheaper to manuafcture. Since Intel went from three chips (CPU, Northbridge and Southbridge) to two chips (CPU and Southbridge) it managed reduce the package footprint by 64 percent.

Measured with Mobile Mark 05 office productivity Pine Trail-M platform will get you 20 percent lower power reduction and obviously bring longer battery life, at least under Windows XP.

It is designed on a four layer PCB, something that enables overall reduction in build of material costs. All this doesn't mean that netbooks in 2010 will get cheaper, they will stay at similar prices.

The launch is scheduled for Q1 2010 and we are quite sure that few vendors plan to show its new netbooks based on these CPUs in January CES 2010 time.