News - Intel Atom SoC roadmap leaked, details Bay Trail / Valleyview

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Up to 4 cores, 2.4GHz and Ivy Bridge HD graphics.

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Details about AMD Jaguar:

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/08/28/a...e-jaguar-core/

This is the sucessor to Brazos and is supposed to be released next year.

That's all nice and beautiful, but I was forced to buy AMD e350 MBO for my HTPC because new Atom MBOs don't have XP drivers, and I don't want to install anything else on an underpowered PC like that. Intel has gone bonkers. Actually, they have drivers for XP but not VGA drivers... however, that's like having no drivers for XP at all, isn't it? ;) Cunning bunch of mobsters... supporting MS all the way.

I'm of the opinion that on modern, if low power hardware, you are better with W7 than XP anyway. Especially for HTPC usage.

I know that Team MediaPortal have discussed dropping XP and even Vista support for future versions of MediaPortal because there are so many fixes and work arounds needed for modern media playback. These chunks of code need maintaining and often make the whole system more difficult to manage.

To add some personal experience in here too, I know my Lenovo S10e worked much better with W7 than it did with XP as well. And it is now an old underpowered netbook :)

Looks like Intel is finally getting it stuff together with regards to the Atom. Sounds like it could give AMD a run for its money at the low end when it comes to performance and it will probably do it at a lower power envelope.

As for XP, I agree with Funkstar. Just drop the old OS. Windows 7 works pretty well on low powered devices and Windows 8 should be even faster. Besides, Intel is just doing the sensible thing. How much more sales will it make if it had XP support? 0.000001%? Probably not worth the investment.

Don't drop Vista support,it will make it only one more step until Windows 7 is dropped too,and we will all have to use the absolutely smashing OS known as Windows 8, with its brilliant MUI.

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Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH

Don't drop Vista support,it will make it only one more step until Windows 7 is dropped too,and we will all have to use the absolutely smashing OS known as Windows 8, with its brilliant MUI.

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If I understand it right, Vista was only a half step away from XP in a lot of areas. They introduced some decent looking media related technologies, APIs and frameworks, but they were buggy and incomplete. W7 finished them off and polished them up, older XP based stuff was also completely dropped in W7 making the whole thing simpler. Vista still has a load of bugs and "features" that need to be worked round to make MediaPortal work as it should. Also, only a small number of their us base in on Vista, most stuck to XP then jumped to W7 when it proved more stable. Consequently they don't have many developers using or debugging on Vista :)

Not to turn this into yet another Windows thread, but I do think W7 will be like XP and hang around for years and years. W8 will quickly fade away when W9 is released. Not saying W8 is bad per say (not used it yet) but it seems like MS are in the tick-tock pattern of software released. Introduce new ways of doing things on one release, then polish it up and make them actually work on the next.

Yeah, lets just drop all "phased out" OS`s and move straight to win8! Forget the millions of people who are still on xp or vista. maybe these people will learn next time, to buy AMD APU`s for much better support, good job intel

I think this leak and others may have come because of an Intel engineer leaving Intel for AMD, the cat was out of the bag, so Intel leaked the roadmaps