As far as I understand Intel presented their new chips on CES show called Arrandale and Clarkdale. Both has integrated graphics accelerator and other things. Those will be based on i7, i5 and i3 cores. In addition to Atom based "pineview" chips that also include graphics accelerator.
So now we have new options in case Atom will not provide enough juice.
Lets hope they will also release Linux drivers for those chips.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Tony Houghton h@realh.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:32:03 +0000 Gavin Hamill gdh@acentral.co.uk wrote:
The Crystal HD decoder will doubtless appear in netbooks very soon, and I fully expect thin Intel Atom PCs to also feature it on-board. When those boards/machines appear, we will be on the way to a *reliable* open source STB which supports modern HD codecs + playback.
Is it intended for the netbook market then? I didn't realise that. Hopefully Intel will realise that VGA is obsolete (and that they need to stop using inefficient chipsets with cheap & noisy coolers) otherwise Ion will still be the only viable option for an Atom HTPC, making Crystal HD theoretically redundant.
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