Atom/Pouslbo combo information

[Mariner]

Some interesting (albeit brief) information about Atom netbooks running in conjunction with the low-power Poulsbo chipset:

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/sho ... i=3494&p=7

I understand that power draw of Poulsbo is considerably lower than the current 945G chipset used with the Atom. I'd imagine that a Mini-ITX motherboard combining these chips would be very useful for a low power system.

One problem for the HTPC crowd is that I understand that, despite the impressive PowerVR VXD video decode processor, Poulsbo currently has some display limitations which make it unsuitable for use in a HTPC.

These limitations were (somewhat odd?) design decisions so hopefully a slightly higher-spec Poulsbo Mark II is under development which will rectify this problem. The technology itself is obviously more than capable - check the bottom picture showing the VXD core decoding four h.264 streams concurrently.