Intel Processor Roadmap 2010 | Update

The roadmap, Intel on the mobile segment of the next month promises to be much traffic. While the general public looks forward to the launch of Intel Calpella, the successor to the current Centrino 2 in the fourth quarter of 2009, the Santa Clara chipmaker prepares its revolution in the field ultramobile.

During 2010 it will be placed on the market both new and long-awaited Intel platforms Pine Trail-M and Intel Moorestown.

Pine Trail-M will collect the inheritance of the Intel Atom mobile classic, using a double-chip architecture as we know, the new Intel microprocessor Pineview Atom will integrate it on the same chip the Processor core "Bonnell", the integrated graphics chip, and the memory controller, and will be supported only by the chip for I / O management known by the codename TigerPoint (Intel NM10).

Despite the significant reduction in the size of the motherboard and consumption, for Pinetrail-M will continue to use the 45-nanometer production process.

Intel Moorestown instead replace the current Intel Menlow platform: in this case, the new processor will incorporate Lincroft both the GPU core integrated the memory controller, relying on the chip I / O Langwell, and will be manufactured with 45 nanometer technology.

Intel's engineers have focused in particular on reducing energy demands, making it the ideal platform for future class devices MID (Mobile Internet Device).

In 2011, Moorestown will pass the baton to the Intel platform Medfield, which will have a single-chip SoC architecture, and finally will use the new 32-nanometer manufacturing technology. Medfield will further reduce fuel consumption and the size of the motherboard, for Intel and should be the coveted ticket to the smartphone market.

The roadmap proposed by the latest Intel finally shows us a mysterious new Intel Mapleview. The platform in question should begin simultaneously with Intel Medfield, and will be assigned to the netbook and nettop to happen to Intel Pine Trail-M (as well as the variant nettop Pinetrail-D).

Since the company has not yet presented any preview of the product, we do not know the technical characteristics. The confidentiality of Intel on this matter, however, raises questions: why the giant California was concerned to submit in advance Intel Medfield (even before the release of Moorestown), while maintaining the veil on an important player as Mapleview? One possible answer to this question (at the level of pure speculation) might be this: Intel has realized that the computing power of the Bonnell core CPU may be sufficient to make the climb to the MID and smartphone segment, but not for devices like netbook and nettop.

The recent launch of Intel's laptop CULV "Thin & Light" flights could significantly reduce the market share of Atom chips: because users have always suffered from the low power Atom CPU, and seem inclined to spend a little more to achieve superior performance. Intel may have therefore decided to develop a new type of processor specifically designed for the netbook segment, with the objective of giving more power without sacrificing the mobility and the fanless design promised Pine Trail.

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