Sources within Asia are confirming that next-gen Atom platform, codenamed Pine Trail, is arriving sooner rather than later.

At the heart of the new Pine Trail platform lies the 45nm Lincroft system-on-chip architecture. Leading the show for the Lincroft family is the Pineview processor which carries one or two Atom cores, an integrated memory controller and an on-die GPU. A single-core variant of the Pineview is also in the wings for 1Q10, and it is destined to find a home in a new wave of netbooks.

The Pine Trail platform also contains the Tiger Point platform control hub which will provide USB, PCI Express, SATA and high-definition audio support.

The single-core Pineview Atom for netbooks will be marketed as the Atom N450. The N450’s desktop clone will be sold as the Atom D410, and the dual-core desktop Pineview will be sold as the Atom D510.

Products based on the new platform are expected around the new year.