5-8W Broadwell-Y. Lots of Core-powered thin-light fanless devices next year.
5-8W Broadwell-Y. Lots of Core-powered thin-light fanless devices next year.
Even at extremely low clockspeeds it should easily clean up everything else. I don't see why anybody would choose anything else over Broadwell if those TDPs are real and it is capable of fanless operation in tablet form. Sort of terrifying if you're one of the dozen (or so?) companies who use ARM designs.
Even at extremely low clockspeeds it should easily clean up everything else. I don't see why anybody would choose anything else over Broadwell if those TDPs are real and it is capable of fanless operation in tablet form. Sort of terrifying if you're one of the dozen (or so?) companies who use ARM designs.
You're greatly overestimating the performance of Haswell at those power levels. A cheap Haswell clocked at 800 MHz (9.5W TDP) doesn't even beat the Atom Z3770 (<4W) in single-threaded tasks and has half the cores so gets blown away in anything multi-threaded.
Unless Broadwell somehow halves the TDP and increases performance significantly, the situation isn't going to change much.
half the cores so gets blown away in anything multi-threaded.
Even at extremely low clockspeeds it should easily clean up everything else. I don't see why anybody would choose anything else over Broadwell if those TDPs are real and it is capable of fanless operation in tablet form. Sort of terrifying if you're one of the dozen (or so?) companies who use ARM designs.
Why? If Intel sells Broadwell for 25$ then it's Intel that gets problems. But I'm pretty sure they'll sell it for much more so they won't compete.
Focus for tablets are price, display and weight. So expensive CPU's will just be a small niche for tablets.
Intel makes great CPU's but the price competition from ARM soc's is not easy to handle.
The statistics are clear, desktops and laptops decrease sale, tablets and smartphones increase sale. This means less money to Intel.
Where did you get 800MHz from? Haswell Y (the 4.5W SPD models) have base frequencies of 1.5GHz and 1.6Ghz depending on the model. And then, Broadwell is expected to lower power usage by 30% according to Intels own slides so expect a nice bump in base frequency with a small IPC boost on top.
This is the lowest end model: http://ark.intel.com/products/76610/Intel-Core-i5-4202Y-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_00-GHz
Do you buy tablets to run benches with or do you buy a tablet to do tablet things? 4 slow cores are as useless in tablets as they are on PCs.
Could you explain what I linked then?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/13-h200ed-i5-4202Y-1-6-2-0GHz-1920x1080-Anti-Glare/dp/B00FC7WLKI
Said cpu in a convertible tablet
5-8W Broadwell-Y. Lots of Core-powered thin-light fanless devices next year.
I'm still a bit baffled by DDR4. I though it was supposed to be a point to point serial interface, yet it has more pins than DDR3 had (288 vs 250)
Even at extremely low clockspeeds it should easily clean up everything else. I don't see why anybody would choose anything else over Broadwell if those TDPs are real and it is capable of fanless operation in tablet form. Sort of terrifying if you're one of the dozen (or so?) companies who use ARM designs.
We hear the same song every generation: this time, this time, Intel is finally going to vanquish ARM and take over the tablet/smartphone market once and for all! But it never happens. It didn't happen with Haswell and it won't happen with Broadwell.
Intel corporate strategy demands >60% profit margins on everything. As long as that is the case, there's no way that they can be competitive in these price-sensitive markets.
Bay Trail already seem to have secured a good part of the tablet segment.
Its still a parallel bus. Point to Point limits it to 1 DIMM per channel. So a dualchannel DDR4 board will only have 2 sockets.
LPDDR4 need more time, it comes a year later. Maybe with Skylake-ULX. DDR4 for some ULX/ULT isn't new actually, we already knew this from other sources. DDR4 for Broadwell-H is new.
If it's P2P, it's not a bus anymore. So it's still parallel data xfer, then the pin count makes more sense, probably more gnd and sig lines on DDR4 I assume.
Point to Point topology, parallel bus is a better description I guess.