Pineview In 2008, wesaw a number of products running on the ultra small, low power processors, Intel's Atom being the latest one. After Diamondville, I ntel is all set to bring in new processors in their Atom family,codenamed Pineview. Similar to Diamondville, the new processor will be used in Netbook/Nettop systems and will be available in single and dual core versions.

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It will feature hyperthreading and is expected to be manufactured on a 45nm or 32nm process. The Bobcat processor from AMD is also expected to be seen next year. Like Atom this one is also a simplified x86 CPU core having extremely low TDPs (I-lOW) and targeted at UMPC, handheld and other small form factor devices.