Digital Home Thoughts: The Road Ahead for Intel's Atom

"An Intel roadmap that surfaced at the Intel Developers Forum 2008 shows that Intel plans to bring the next generation Atom processor to market in Q3 2009 -- roughly a year from now. PCWatch reports that the new Atom will carry the codename Pineview and will be offered in both dual-core and single-core versions."

Dual-core was pretty much expected at this point, but what I found interesting was the plan to build the GPU core directly into the chip. We should be seeing the dual-core Atoms soon, but technically we should only be seeing them in non-XP based netbooks unless Microsoft relents on their requirement that XP only continue to be used on single core machines.