Comments on: Future Atom Processors to Use GMA500 and go in Smartphones http://www.netbookmarket.net/2009/09/future-atom-processors-to-use-gma500-and-go-in-smartphones/ Buy the latest and greatest Netbooks at the lowest prices! Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:51:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Admin http://www.netbookmarket.net/2009/09/future-atom-processors-to-use-gma500-and-go-in-smartphones/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Admin Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:02:07 +0000 http://www.netbookmarket.net/?p=609#comment-324 Thanks for that Ken, I have updated the reference to Sodaville. Its really all rumor until the devices ship but it would make more sense to use 500's as you say. Thanks for that Ken, I have updated the reference to Sodaville.

Its really all rumor until the devices ship but it would make more sense to use 500’s as you say.

]]> By: Ken http://www.netbookmarket.net/2009/09/future-atom-processors-to-use-gma500-and-go-in-smartphones/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Ken Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:37:02 +0000 http://www.netbookmarket.net/?p=609#comment-323 I would be careful about assuming that all these chips will be coupled with PowerVR GMA500 graphics cores it - bizarrely - appears that Pinetrail will still be coupled with an Intel graphics core. There have been driver teardowns that still show Intel graphics references for Pinetrail rather than SGX references and it appears that this update will keep Intel graphics inside. It makes NO sense whatsoever to do this, but maybe it is Intel going for the cheap/higher power consumption offering on one of their chips and in the netbook/nettop market, while leaving the less power hungry GMA500 based solutions for the markets requiring lower power consumption - MIDS, smartphones. Also Sodaville is a set top box/CE platform not a phone platform. I have ulterior motives for wanting all Intel platforms to be GMA500 based, but there appears to be pretty conclusive evidence that Pinetrail isn't. I would be careful about assuming that all these chips will be coupled with PowerVR GMA500 graphics cores it – bizarrely – appears that Pinetrail will still be coupled with an Intel graphics core.

There have been driver teardowns that still show Intel graphics references for Pinetrail rather than SGX references and it appears that this update will keep Intel graphics inside.

It makes NO sense whatsoever to do this, but maybe it is Intel going for the cheap/higher power consumption offering on one of their chips and in the netbook/nettop market, while leaving the less power hungry GMA500 based solutions for the markets requiring lower power consumption – MIDS, smartphones.

Also Sodaville is a set top box/CE platform not a phone platform.

I have ulterior motives for wanting all Intel platforms to be GMA500 based, but there appears to be pretty conclusive evidence that Pinetrail isn’t.

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