In a recent article published on Overclockers Club, a cloudy future is predicted for the ION platform.
By launching the new Pine Trail Atom platform, some can consider Intel as preparing its “attack” on Nvidia’s platform. Unlike the architecture used until now (with three chips: a CPU for the number crunching, a GMA950 northbridge/GPU for the graphics and [...]

Even more trouble for NVIDIA coming from Intel today regarding Intel’s announcement of the Pine Trail platform. The juggernaut chip-maker Intel has decided to outsource the graphics processing for Pine Trail to Broadcom. Folks are saying that the chip Intel will be using is the Broadcom BCM70015 which is quite capable of HD decoding. The [...]

Today we have an update to yesterdays announcement of Pine Trail by Intel. Pine Trail is Intel’s next-gen chipset made to accompany the next iteration of Atom processors dubbed Pineview. Intel has clarified that although the Pineview chip already contains its own integrated graphics, it will still be compatible with NVIDIA’s ION chipset and GPU. [...]

Intel had a conference call today to discuss some of its strategies regarding its Atom products. First, Intel revealed a plan for a new platform called ‘Pine Trail’ which will be the successor to Intel’s current Atom 945GC/945GSE platforms. The changes basically remove the need for an FSB, because the processor will actually be a [...]