As of right now all ION chips are manufactured with a 55nm process, but that should change by the end of 2009. A smaller manufacturing process means that the chip can be made smaller and also produce less heat than older larger chips. We can also expect to see a slight performance increase as well [...]

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. [...]