14 DAY TRIAL // Expected to arrive in the third quarter of this year, Intel's Cedar Trail-M platform for netbook devices will feature support for the Wireless Display technology, according to a leaked Intel slide that just recently hit the Web.
This technology was also showcased during the Computex 2011 fair, so the news is pretty much certain, but the most important finding is that unlike the WiDi version supported in notebooks, its netbook counterpart will feature a limited resolution.
According to the slide, the Intel Atom N2600 and N2800 Cedar Trail processors will support a “dynamic resolution up to 600p.”
Back at Computex, Intel representatives told several publications that we should expect 720p video over WiDi from netbooks, but this doesn't appear to be the case anymore.
Even if Intel has a trick up its sleeve and still manages somehow to enable 720p wireless video streaming on its upcoming Cedar Trail platform, the success of this technology in the netbooks space is still uncertain.
The main problem faced by Wirelss Display is that it has to be paired together with a compatible receiver that retails for $99.99 US, which certainly is a bit too much considering the low price of a netbook computer.
Cedar Trail is the code name used for Intel's next generation Atom chips, that will be built using the 32nm manufacturing node and will use a unified architecture which packs both the processing cores and the GPU on the same die.
Unlike today's Atom CPUs, the graphics core is based on a PowerVR design and it includes support for DirectX 10.1 as well as hardware decoding capabilities for HD content, including MPEG2, VC1, AVC, H.264 and Blu-ray 2.0.
The Cedar Trail product family will be comprised out of four CPU models, two for netbook computers and two for desktop use, which should become available in September. (via VR-Zone)
