The second generation of Intel Atom microprocessors will be revealed in the second quarter of 2010 as division of the platform Pine Trail-M. While the structural design as well as manufacturing development of processors did not change, we can be expecting improvements due to changes in fees. Moving the memory controller within the CPU will improve performance, besides, more advanced graphics engine will also be built into the processor, which is also a positive effect on productivity.

This movement as a side effect entails a reduction in the number of required chips with three items (CPU, Southbridge, Northbridge) to two (CPU, South Bridge), which, in turn, will reduce production costs and reduce power consumption by approximately 20%. Producer said that due to this change in the platform will be physically smaller by 64%.

Because of the condensed energy devices based on the platform Atom 2 can work on battery power for longer than netbooks on the platform of the previous generation. In theory you can count on the budget platform, which is cheaper, quicker and longer, in addition spends less battery. Without a hesitation, it sounds very appealing, but how it will look like in realism, we see only the next year.