Needs less power
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.