We’ve been hearing about the new Intel platform for UMPC for sometime now. Today HKEPC gives us more details about the product. This is codenamed “McCaslin” and to be released 18th of this month. They are reporting a while lot of details some of which are too hard to believe, but really encouraging — like by 2010 Intel expects 10% of the total PC users to be using UMPCs.
…McCaslin adopts the north bridge codenamed Little River, which occupied a space of 22mmx22mm, and approximately 34% of space is freed when compared to the previous model. Little River also supports 400MHz FSB and DDR-2 400 memory modules up to 1GB. In addition, Little River contains Intel GMA X3000 and supports the DirectX 9.0c, as well as achieves Vista Premium. On the other side, the south bridge adopts ICH 7U which is the simplified version of ICH7-M. ICH 7U supports 8 groups of USB 2.0 ports, occupied space is 15mmx15mm, and around 77% space is saved…
Intel expectes the share of UMPC in the PC market will continually go up and score around 10% raising or above by 2010. Therefore Intel has sketched out the detailed future plan for UMPC. By the 2nd quarter of 2008, the Menlow platform will be launched, and all spaces will be further shrunken as the single-ship design will be adopted by the chipsets. The processor will also shift to the 45nm manufacturing. In 2009, memory controller and IGP engine will be further integrated into the processor, and new chipsets will be taken up. It is expected that efficiency will be heightened 2 times when compared to that of two years before, and the runtime of battery will be greatly heightened to 12 -24 hours.
Intel Launches a Brand-New UMPC Platform: Stealey Walking to Micromation [via engadget]
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