After almost 12 months of the Atom-powered pint-sized processor, Intel are keen for more. With an almost saturated PC market, pocketable Internet-connected consumer electronics devices will be at the forefront of Company growth. Intel plan to throw everything they have into the development of a second generation Atom that will use a tiny 10% of overall system power. The ‘CPU hub’ codenamed Lincroft, will be paired with a specialised I/O hub codenamed Langwell which will provide the connections to each system’s wireless, storage and display components and limit power usage. All the while keeping in mind the consumers who still want WiFi, others will want CDMA or 3G, where others will want WiMAX with many also have the requirements of different I/O needs.

Aiming for release in or before 2010, the Lincroft-Langwell combo creates an Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform dubbed ‘Moorestown’, which is the successor to the ‘Menlow’ platform comprising of the Silvethorne processor and Poulsbo chipset, already available in Inspiron Mini 12 and Vaio P netbooks. To manage system power, there will not be the concept of ’sleeping’ components, rather turning them off completely. To deliver an Internet rich user experience, Pankaj Kedia director of ecosystems for Intel’s Ultra-Mobile Group states “Every smartphone is a mobile internet device, including the iPhone. When we think about MID we think about the same phenomenon with the Internet, ” which will so soon be more powerful and mobile than ever.

[via apc]