Intel Cedar Trail will cost about 30-50% cheaper chipsets Intel Atom

Intel plans to drastically reduce the price of the chipsets of its own production. Told Taiwan resource DigiTimes, citing sources from among the manufacturers of netbooks. Models produced within the platform Intel Cedar Trail will cost from 42 to 47 dollars. In comparison with the fact that the models of series four and five hundred families of Intel Atom is now available at prices ranging from $ 64 to $ 86. That is the expected cost reduction will be from 30 to 50 percent.

Such a substantial overestimation of production indicates a change in the overall market where tablet PCs have a significant pressure on traditional notebooks. Many companies have reoriented to growing markets, where netbooks are offered at a price of 200 - $ 300. It is worth noting that the new platform Intel Cedar Trail is not only economical in cost, but also more performance and power efficiency. N2600 processor clocked at 1.6 GHz has a core with hyperthreading function (Hyperthreading) merged into a single platform with a graphics card with 400 MHz. A version of the N2800 with a clock speed of 1.86 GHz, combined with a graphics adapter GMA 3650, which in turn has a clock frequency of 640 MHz.

Admission processor family Intel Cedar Trail is expected this winter.