INTEL TO UPDATE ITS PINE TRAIL PROCESSORS WITH SUPPORT FOR DDR3 RAM

Intel, we are heard, will update its Pine Trail Atom processors in the third quarter of 2010. There will be no major improvement in power consumption or overall performance, but the new chips will support DDR3 RAM. The current generation of Intel Atom N450 and N470 processors can only handle DDR2 RAM. They are not significantly faster than the previous Atom N270/N280 processors, but they are said