Details of Atoms display support

With more and more details, we are slowly getting a complete picture of all the capabilities of the new N2000 and D2000 series. We have now received hitherto unknown information about display support.

Intel's latest low-power chips have widespread support for interfaces. In addition to laptops, we get significant LVDS and eDP connectivity, and for desktops, the device comes with support for HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort, and the good old D-Sub ports. Interestingly, for LVDS and eDP displays, a resolution of up to 1366 x 768 pixels can be exploited by N2000 members, at 60 Hz, of course; but this may ultimately suffice, as displays below 15,6 inches do not often support higher resolutions, and even at a size of 15,6, this is more common. The D Atoms, which are designed for desktop solutions, on the other hand, already cope with FullHD, ie 1920 x 1080 resolution, in addition to eDP, and allow slightly higher 1440 x 900 support even with LVDS. In addition to the external interfaces, all but one support up to 1080p, both solutions have developed a high contrast in the case of the DP port, as here the D2000 series supports displays up to 2560 x 1600, while the N chips support 1600 x They give up after 1200. Multiple displays are supported for up to two at a time than we are used to.

It has relatively good support for hardware video encoding, but unfortunately this is not exactly a good support for HTPCs in this respect either. They support MPEG2, WMV, H.264 and VC-1 or 720p60m 1080i60 or 1080p24 video encoding up to 20Mbps bandwidth. However, MPEG4 is not supported (or rather MPEG4 Part 2 is H.264 MPEG-4 Part 10), so DivX and similar formats still catch on Intel's hardware decoding. Also, acceleration is not supported with Flash 11.0.

Source: Intel