Intel unveiled its 2009 platform for its Atom processor on Tuesday, and announced that the first beta of the Moblin 2.0 software it helped develop had been released. The new Atom is known as "Pine Trail," and shrinks the number of chips required to develop an Atom netbook, nettop, or some other device down to two: the CPU package, known as "Pineview," and the I/O chip, dubbed "Tiger Point".
The reduction in chips hasn't quite produced what Intel hopes to achieve in "Larrabee," its upcoming graphics chip, or what rival AMD has discussed with its "Fusion" plans. However, the 45-nm Pineview chip combines the Atom processor, memory controller, and graphics logic inside a single monolithic die. Serial ATA and PCI Express connections will be included.
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