Intel Atom N455 and N475 mysteriously pop up on ASUS placards

We don't really know what to make of this, but while battling the onslaught of new netbooks at the ASUS's CeBIT booth we noticed some peculiar new Intel Atom processors on a few signs. As you can see above it looks like the Eee PC 1015PE will not only be available with the current N450 and the newly announced N470 Pine Trail processors, but also the rumored N455 and N475 CPUs. Intel tells us that these are not-yet-announced-products, but we're guessing we'll hear more tomorrow morning at Chipzilla's press conference -- although we're not too optimistic that dropping a zero and adding a five is going to provide all that much more Atom netbook power.

[CommentsTroll Posted Mar 1st 2010 6:33PM]

Probably just DDR3 versions of N450/N470.

[bolezhinkov Posted Mar 1st 2010 6:41PM]

at SOME point youd think they'd want to have HDMI capable chips too though . . . especially with ION 2 involved.

[Val Posted Mar 1st 2010 7:02PM]

@bolezhinkov

Ion 2 is definitely an HDMI capable chip, as was the first ion. There is no reason to think that any laptop or netbook with ION will be lacking an HDMI port and full 1080p support. The HP mini 311 has one, as do many others. Real question is, why doesn't intel just upgrade the graphics core in the N450 to be capable of hardware 1080p decoding, and add the HDMI port interface to the chip... Forget gaming, just this one little thing will go a long way. After all, they do have graphics chips that decode full HD.

[jayayess1190 Posted Mar 1st 2010 6:45PM]

@CommentsTroll Exactly, the N455 and N475 as rumored months ago add DDR3 support.

[MysterLee Posted Mar 1st 2010 7:06PM]

Engadget themselves posted about the N455/N475 a month ago, although they seem to have somehow forgotten: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/intel-said-to-be-cooking-up-ddr3-lovin-atom-n475-and-atom-n455/

[htd Posted Mar 1st 2010 7:17PM]

how can they still stick to 1024x600?

[phuz Posted Mar 1st 2010 7:38PM]

@htd it's a 10" screen any higher might cause eye strain to some people lol

[phuz Posted Mar 1st 2010 7:40PM]

@htd oh i guess 1152x768 would be nice

[n0ne Posted Mar 1st 2010 11:48PM]

WAAAAAAAANNNNNNTTTT!!!!!!!!!

[jules Posted Mar 2nd 2010 4:52AM]

Blah, blah. I wanna know if they're 0.7 inch thick? They certainly don't look as thin as the 1008, which is 1 inch.

[KAL326 Posted Mar 2nd 2010 9:49AM]

You know what else went unanounced and unnoticed? i7 930.

[hmmwv Posted Mar 2nd 2010 10:10AM]

They could also be higher clock frequency versions of 450 and 470, but I guess more sources are pointing to the DDR3 direction.