Intel boosts Atom
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversIntel on Tuesday gave the first preview of its next-generation Atom chip, with a more integrated design intended to improve performance and energy efficiency.
The company also launched the beta of version 2.0 of the Linux-based Moblin netbook platform, with a new interface. The upcoming Atom chip, code-named 'Pineview', incorporates the memory controller and graphics chip onto a the same silicon as the processor, a more efficient design that should lower costs for system builders, lower energy consumption and improve performance, Intel said.
In current Atom-based systems, the memory controller and graphics circuitry are on a separate chip, as are the input-output (I/O) functions, for a total of three chips. The platform of which Pineview is a part, called 'Pine Trail', thus reduces the total number of chips from three to two, Intel said. The second Pine Trail chip, which provides I/O functions, is called 'Tiger Point'.
"We have a processor, we have a chipset, and we have an I/O hub. What we've done is reduce that three-chip partition to a two-chip partition," Noury Al-Khaledy, general manager of Nettop and Netbook Computing at Intel, said during a teleconference announcing the new platform.
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