Intel's been developing their next batch of Atom processors for a while and it's likely that they may be releasing their first Intel Atom Pine Trail netbook chipset in January of 2010. In fact, the 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor is rumored to launch on January 3rd. Netbooks with N450 chipsets may follow shortly thereafter.
This two-chip platform requires much less space within a physical netbook, something that manufacturers are quite excited about. There shouldn't be much difference in netbook battery life or performance though, as the processor is roughly the same as previous Intel Atom versions.
The selling of the Intel Atom N450 chipset will be $64, $20 more than the current Intel Atom N270 chipset.
Via Fudzilla.
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