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Intel promotes Atom N280 in late February
The supplement GN40 chipset may broadcast the HD broadcast
Article: John Lam/media center
Advertisement advertisement AMD chipset will invade Netbook, the Nettop market by Athlon Neo processor supplement AMD the 690E, to protect this piece of military commander land that must fight for, Intel has not accepted NVIDIA the ION platform the suggestion, decided that promotes brand-new Atom in late February the N280 processor, and the supplement brand-new GN40 chipset, uses the brand-new GMA4000 cartography core, not only the game potency promotes largely, may support HD Gao Huazhi to broadcast.
It is known that the Intel plan promotes brand-new Atom in late February the N280 processor, still used 45 nanometer Diamondville cores, is only when the core the arteries promotion to 1.66GHz, front end a row of afflux also promotes to 667MHz, similarly in constructs 512KB L2 Cache, supports the Hyper-Threading technology, may support processes 2 Threading.
In addition, Intel simultaneously promoted brand-new GN40 chipset supplement this Atom the N280 processor, GN40 chipset has designed based on Intel GM4x the IGP, in constructed the GMA 4000 cartography cores, Intel locates this supplement in “Enhanced Media Netbook”, compared to will use Intel 945GSE in the potency aspect to have the enormous improvement, could satisfy 7 ~ 10 吋 display monitors and under 800 x 400 ~ 1024 x 600 resolutions the 3D game's need, supported HD Gao Huazhi to decode more importantly, might support H.264, VC-1 and the MPEG 2 codes, but supported 720p perhaps 1080p high, then still waited for announcing.
Because Intel the GN40 chipset and Intel the 945GSE chip foot position is not accommodating, after in addition supplement Intel GN40, together with Intel N280 processor's power loss, by supplement Intel 945GSE 8W promotion to 16.5W, therefore the manufacturers need to aim at the GN40 chipset the radiation demand redesign product, now had learned about that ASUS has prepared the end of February to the beginning of March, promotes uses Intel Atom N280 processor supplement GN40 the chipset the Netbook product, the model established provisionally that is Eee PC 1000HE.
Intel Atom the N280 processor may also supplement Intel the 945GSE chipset, because the processor power loss reaches agreement, the existing product may, in has not modified under the radiation and the electrical design, renews the product directly, but because old some Intel Atom N270 under the Intel strict stipulation, will be unable supplement Intel the GN40 chipset.
According to the NB entrepreneur pointed out that Intel Atom 280 processor supplement GN40 chipset every thousand sets of unit prices approximately in 60 ~ 65 US dollars, compare the existing platform fixed price approximately to be higher than 20 US dollars, but because in the function and the specification has the large modification, might assist Intel converging attack AMD Athlon Neo the supplement 690E platform, does not need with the aid of NVIDIA the ION platform also 撃.
According to Intel the newest Netbook specification, Intel Atom N270, Intel Atom N280 processor supplement 945GSE, in 2009 the fourth season by next generation Atom processor Pineview supplement Tiger point south the bridge substitution, but Intel Atom N280 processor supplement GN40 will continue to 2010 the first half of the year.
