The NM10 Chipset, Backporting to the Pentium Era, and Makimoto's Wave
Today's post (I actually began writing this post on a Wednesday night at 9:51pm) is going to branch out from central processing units and cover two highly interrelated integration steps from the 2010 era, just before the release of the Intel Graphics Technology . A couple years ago, in March 2024, I did a multi distro test on my Sylvania netbook from 2011, an Intel Atom N450 with 1.66Ghz, 1GB of RAM, NM10 chipset, and an 8GB SATA based SSD card. This era was defined as a transition between the Northbridge based video graphics controllers (after the AGP based i740 was integrated into the Intel 810 in 1999) and the Intel HD Graphics, which has been a series since 2010 (along with other products such as the Arc). The most common that I found in netbooks and entry-level PCs at the time were the GMA 915, 950 and the GMA 3150 , the latter two which had DirectX 9 support. I had briefly owned the Eee PC 701 4G for a few years shortly after launch, when it cost $200 for the 4GB mo...