Intel Arms Netbook with "Cedar Trail" to Compete with Tablet

Cedar Trail – Newest Intel’s Processor for netbook | After launching the Oak Trail chip specifically for the tablet, this time Intel says ready to market a special chip for netbooks, with the name of a similar chip, the Cedar Trail. PC manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, Asus, and Samsung will use the platform Cedar Trail since January 2012 with U.S. $ 199 price range.

Intel introduced Cedar Trail  for the first time to consumers at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 (CES 2012) in Las Vegas on the 9th until January 13th. Intel demonstrated doubled graphics performance on a netbook after using this new chip. Intel also talked about their latest chips for other platforms, such as smart phones, tablet, and PC at the event.

Cedar Trail is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) which has a two-core (dual core) that staying to help the battery last longer, as well as helping the overall netbook performance. Intel Atom, introduced two years ago will be updated with this chip, thereby reducing power consumption by 20 percent. With this processor, netbook’s battery can last up to 10 hours of usage.

Cedar Trail allows netbook to play high definition video and supports for the HDMI port (high-definition multimedia interface port) on the chipset to connect to HD quality television. The new chip is made in two types, namely the N2600 is running at 1.6 GHz with a power of 3.5 Watt. While the N2800, which runs at 1.86 GHz and power of 6.5 Watt.

Cedar Trail is Intel’s important step to "awaken" netbook platform, which continues to decrease with the increasing demand for tablets, especially the Apple iPad. Although netbooks were much reduced demand in the United States and Western Europe, demand for netbooks is growing rapidly in some countries such as India and China.

Previously Intel has introduced Cedar Trail for desktop in September 2011. Meanwhile, the chip for the tablet was introduced in March 2011 under the name Oak Trail. To complement the tablet chip series, Intel will also introduce two other new chip, Medfield or Clover Trail.

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