Another thing to think about is that Mary Lou Jepsen (hope I spell it right) said that in the beginning there was absolutely zero change in manufacturing compared to a regular LCD screen.
With all the revisions I think she had to take back those words, as they already mentioned using different layering system on their PiQi screens, including adding a touchscreen layer by default,as well as reducing the thickness of the screens.
Perhaps it's even possible to make them of plastic instead of glass, so they'd be a little more tolerant to bending (glass breaks faster).
That on itself (the different layering they use, and the built in touchscreen) has to imply that at least 'some' change had to be done on the original design of the LCD screen.
I still expect a lot of netbooks to be manufactured with the newer Atom.
I just read on tomshardware the following:
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MSI has said that Intel will officially launch the next iteration of its Atom processor at CES 2010. While Intel is keeping pretty quiet on a specific release date, MSI insists Pine Trail will take center stage in Las Vegas this coming January.
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In my mind the perfect combo will still be a Win7 netbook, with this newer Atom processor, and a Pixel Qi screen.
If the manufacturers are of the same thought, they probably will have the first netbook batches ready by February or March (since there's not too much to change compared to a regular netbook).
That would be 6 months down the road, but who knows?