14 DAY TRIAL // Even though the Intel Developer Forum closed its gates a couple of days ago, news from the conference keep coming our way and one of the latest to make its appearance showcases a ultra-thin nettop concept that is based n the upcoming Atom Cedarview processors.
The design reminds us more of a laptop than a nettop computer and is housed inside a 0.5L case that is barely taller than a DVI port.
Despite the small size, the nettop comes with a wide variety of ports and connectors including a pair of jacks for plugging in a mic and headphones, four USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, as well as DVI and HDMI video outputs.
At the heart of the system stands Intel's yet unreleased Atom N2800 processor that is based on the Cedarview architecture.
This chip was actually designed by Intel to be used inside mobile systems, such as netbooks, and it features two processing cores with Hyper-Threading support for a total of eight computing threads, packs 1MB of Level 2 cache memory and comes clocked at 1.86GHz.
In addition, the chip also sports an integrated 1066MHz memory controller as well as a 640MHz on-die GMA 3650 GPU that is based on a PowerVR core.
As it can be seen from the video enclosed right below the news, the graphics core is quite capable of handling 1080p video decoding (the CPU usage seems to spike when in full-screen mode) and Intel even boasts that it supports Blu-ray 2.0 playback.
The rest of the system includes 4GB of DDR3 memory as well as a 32GB Intel solid state drive.
At this point in time it's still uncertain if any OEMs will pick up this design and use it in order to build their own nettop solutions. (via Netbook News)