Get Ready For The Intel Pine Trail Netbook CPU

Intel’s newest Pine Trail processor is set to get inside new netbooks in the near future. Nobody seems to know for sure what the netbook world will gain from them just yet, but what we do know is that the design integrates graphics functions – previously stationed on an auxiliary chip – with the main CPU.

For consumers, this should mean some serious improvements in important areas, according to Intel executive VP Sean Maloney:

“Better battery life. But performance more than anything,”

HP has even held off on selling preconfigured HP Mini 5101 netbooks from the HP website, preparing for new models involving the new Pine Trail processors.

A Dell spokesperson signaled that Dell is in as well:

“You can expect that Dell will be offering products based on Intel’s next-gen Atom platform, aka Pine Trail.”

We won’t be seeing much of the Pine Trail until 2010, but before you know it, Black Friday will be over, holiday shopping will be through, and it will be time to kick it with a new Intel Atom.

Via CNet.