More Pineview/Atom N450 details emerge

It’s not even been 24h since the last leak, but already a wealth of additional information about the new Atom N450 has made its way online. Thanks to HKEPC we now have a full breakdown of the specifications of not only the N450 for mobile use, but also the desktop D410 (single core) and D510 (dual core). The good news is that the TDP of the N450 is down from 16W of the N270 to a mere 7W and the average power draw is down from 4W to 2W.

Thanks to the chipset redesign, we’ll see netbooks with a 4-layer PCB design rather than today’s 6-layer design, which will allow for lower costs. The reduced TDP also means that the N450 doesn’t need fan cooling which will simplify the cooling design and further lower costs. The core clock speed will stay the same at 1.66GHz, although the N450 supports DDR2 667MHz memory which might lead to a small performance boost.

The bad news you ask? Well, for starters the NM10 Express chipset will feature the GMA500, the same integrated graphics solution (IGP) as found in the US15W chipset that gets paired up with the Z-series Atom processors (also known as Silverthorne) and this graphics solution has a terrible reputation for poor video performance. Now this is something that can hopefully be solved by more mature drivers, but we’ll just have to wait and see what Intel does to address this problem. At least the clock speed of the IGP is said to be 200MHz which is faster than the IGP of the 945GSE chipset which is clocked at 133MHz, but this doesn’t really mean much without some real world benchmark figures.

A lot less is known about the desktop parts, but but will be clocked at 1.66GHz and the dual core D510 should arrive in the 4th quarter of this year alongside the mobile N450. The single core D410 won’t arrive until the first quarter of 2010 if this information is correct. None of the new Atom processors will supports Intel’s virtualization technologies, but this wasn’t really expected, but all three models support 64-bit operating systems, although the 2GB memory limitation makes this kind of moot. You can find the HKEPC article here in Chinese.