New Atom N450 CPU due in October
The N450 is codenamed “Pine Trail” — see previous coverage here — and represents a shift from a 3-chip to a 2-chip platform architecture, with the graphics chipset and memory controller moving in with the processor on the “north” complex, with the I/O being in the “south” complex.
The system board will move from six to four layers, too. All of this will result in smaller designs that are more efficient from a power and cooling standpoint.
So basically by the holidays we’ll see slimmer, smaller, cooler netbook-type devices with longer battery life. Hooray.