Intel 'Pine Trail' amputates Atom's third chip
Intel has confirmed that its next-generation Atom processor, code-named Pineview, will include an on-chip memory controller and an integrated graphics processor. Echoing a processor roapmap leaked to the press in February, the company told reporters this morning that Pineview would arrive "in the second half of the year" as part …
Rivers
"But it's unclear why Pine Trail is two words and Pineview is only one word"
I think they name them after rivers in northern California.
HD
If the GPU is still not up to providing HD resolution video playback then I'm not interested.
This sounds like a way to kill the AMD ion in its cradle. Or at least force ion purchasers into buying an redundant intel gpu with every system.
Naming convention
I think they are named after rivers but not just in Northern California. The Nehalem, for example, is in Oregon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_River
