Intel’s Cedar Trail will be 32nm; supports DDR3 memory & HD video
November 20, 2009 at 10:50 am
Initial details on Intel’s successor to the Pine Trail chipset emerged yesterday. Whilst Pine Trail (and its processor codenamed Pineview) has not even hit netbooks yet, we found out that the next chipset will be named Cedar Trail. The next-gen Atom processor part will aptly be named Cedarview, following on the naming convention used with Pine Trail.
Fudzilla has some further information regarding Cedar Trail and confirms that it will use a 32nm fabrication process. The Cedarview processor part is likely to launch in 2011. It will include a new memory controller and will support single-channel DDR3 memory.
The Cedar Trail chipset will also support both HD video content and DirectX 10.1 graphics. This new graphics core will support LVDS, eDP, HDMI and DisplayPort that the forthcoming Pineview processor lacks. It will also include Blu-ray and twin-display support. We’ll bring you further details on the Cedar Trail chipset and Cedarview processors as we get them.
November 20th, 2009 11:16 AM
Then why not introduce Cedarview itself from the start … why test the grounds with Pineview when the competition (namely: AMD + few others) are already hot on their heels with “all-of-the-above”.
IF at all there can be a parallel … it can be that of Windows coming out with Vista … why couldn’t MS carry on with XP and then jump directly to Win7 .. Pinetrail is a bettered version of present ATOM chips, I feel , so there’s nothing fabulous to carry on home about. Whats out of the ordinary, is Cedarview as of now. Am sure there can only be a very good ‘commercial, market-led’ reason for Intel.