Intel's next-gen Atom arrives in Asus' Eee PC 1005PE netbook Pine Trail makes it

http://techreport.com/articles.x/18167
http://hothardware.com/articles/Asus-Eee-PC1005PE-Atom-N450-Pinetrail-Platform-Launch/

hmm sexy, now we just need mITX boards!

I was reading about these yesterday. Perhaps this is what Apple has been waiting for to power a phone-capable tablet PC running full OS X.

after some more reading, intel still cripples atom... with such a bad onboard video solustion, that cant even do HW 264/vc1 or even the new HD flash..

even looking at the sandra numbers, i cant for the life of me figure out what GIPS is? i know what MIPS is which is what is listed in the sandra 2009 lite i used for my Atom 230vs330 review on NLHW. from what i can tell though there are no improvements to atom it self. as the increase in clock speeds shows it to be a bit faster then the Atom 230 i used(comparing the N450 to it). i was hoping for some other enhancements to it.

if we can get mITX boards with mini-pcie slots then the HW 264/vc1 can be taken card of.
http://www.logicsupply.com/products/bcm970012

the biggest thing from pineview is the lower TPD overall compared to the older nettop atom cpus.

GigaInstructionsPerSecond, i imagine. That follows logically from MegaInstructionsPerSecond, and sounds better then BIPS

The Atom itself isn't likely to get a lot of development IMO, it doesn't cost enough to spend money on.

Bobnova said:

The Atom itself isn't likely to get a lot of development IMO, it doesn't cost enough to spend money on.

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well atoms have alot more industial use then the core 2 or any other intel cpu atm. it can be used in small fully passive cases, just check out logic supply's selection of barebone systems. with adding the IMC/video on i would have at least figured a 2-5% increase per clock over last gens atom. thought it would also be nice to get a mobile atom with a 2ghz clock speed.

It does allow much faster memory, though on a 533fsb that won't help much i don't think.
Boosting that to 800 would help a lot i think.

Pine Trail moved away from the traditional fsb like what P45 and older use. It uses a DMI buss with a Base Clock like LGA1156 has, see pic below. Added that since the Atom now has ondie memory controller, would work just like with i5/i7,AM2/AM+/AM3. I think intel just wanted to really limit the ram speed for the netbooks. that way they can get the best low power TDP from the design. DDR2-533 cas4 is more then enough but it would be interesting to see where/if Pine Trail really needs faster speed ram.

Bobnova said:

GigaInstructionsPerSecond, i imagine. That follows logically from MegaInstructionsPerSecond, and sounds better then BIPS

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well as far as i knew MIPS stood for "millions of instructions per second", so i dont know how Giga would have followed into that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second

so im kinda stuck tring to compare this TR SS of Sandra 2009
http://hothardware.com/articleimages/Item1431/small_san-cpu.png
the GIPS number to my MIPS i got from the same program.
http://www.nextlevelhardware.com/cpu/atom/