Pine Trail platform was introduced in the first days of this year, but let’s call it Q1 2010 and Intel won’t bring a bigger brother for another one-and-half year. Pine Trail is the most important player on the netbooks market and will remain so at least until the second half of 2011.
Intel plan is to have working samples by Q2 2011 and if all goes well it will start the production of Cedar Trail M 32nm Atom. We can expect an entire platform to come with the new processor including a chipset and wireless.
Being built on 32nm means that will use little power, but having two cores, the power drain might actually increase slightly. At least one of the upcoming dual-core Atoms will be clocked at 1.5GHz, so we can only estimate the power draw somewhere 8.5W plus graphics. So netbooks equipped with dual-core Atom will have a TDP just 20% higher than single-core Atom powered netbooks.
There’s not much to talk about it, because the scheduled processors will come in about 1,5 years from now and until then probably Intel will launch a revised version of the Pine Trail because AMD has right now more powerful processors for netbooks, but which indeed use a bit more power. We are looking forward to Intel’s Cedar Trail-M platform because it will bring a 32nm with Full HD support in one tiny package.
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[...] Cedar Trail M comes in the second half of 2011, so more than a year from now, and many things might become more clear over the coming months. One thing is certain; this subject won’t be boring at all. [...]