Posted on Wednesday, September 15 2010 @ 16:11 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
AnandTech
brings some more photos from the IDF in San Francisco. Intel showed off the first Oak Trail platforms, including a tablet and a OCS1 handheld Windows gaming device with a sliding keyboard and a pair of d-pads. Both Oaktrail-based systems are expected to be launched in 2011.
Moorestown focused on a significant reduction in idle and active power, the former enabled by completely ditching the PCI bus. While this well for getting Atom into smartphones, the missing PCI bus means that you can't use Moorestown in Windows. Intel made an alternate version of Moorestown to address this shortcoming. Oak Trail takes the Lincroft SoC (CPU + GPU + memory controller) and pairs it with a new PCH, codenamed Whitney Point. Whitney Point adds PCI support, enabling Windows support.
