Over the past few decades, peop
le have gotten used to computer chips getting faster and faster. And so it's not surprising that some folks expect the next generation of Intel's Atom processor to be faster than the version available today, and for the model coming after that to be even faster. But that's kind of not the point of the Atom line. And so I'm not surprised to see that Fudzilla is reporting that the Intel Atom Cedar Trail platform which is due to hit the streets in 2011 won't be much faster than the Atom Pine Trail platform due out early next year. Which is to say, you shouldn't expect much of a performance boost over what you see in Intel Atom powered netbooks today.
In fact, according to Fudzilla, Intel reps are saying the Cedarview chipset will only be about 5-10% faster than the upcoming Intel Atom Pineview chipset. They will, however, use less power. The goal for the Cedar Trail platform is to produce a chipset that uses less than 10W for the whole platform including the CPU, graphics, and memory controller.
And that's really the whole point of the Atom platform: To provide decent performance with a low power draw. If you want a faster computer, you can certainly get one. It just won't have an Atom chip and it will probably cost more than a typical netbook.
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Rumor: Intel Atom Cedar Trail chips won't be much faster
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