[geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Fri Aug 15 10:47:19 CDT 2008


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:58:55AM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:

> Intel already has a low power chipset for Atom, called Poulsbo.  It was
> mentioned in that Anandtech article I linked to weeks ago:
> 
> http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3276&p=17
> 
> And notice they went with a PowerVR SGX graphics core?  That's because
> Intel apparently can't (or can't be bothered to design) a low-power
> graphics core.

I must have overlooked that.  That is way cool.  I hope there are good
open drivers for the PowerVR chip.  



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