Amazon picked Snapdragon
To be specific:Unknown so far. Intel said its an "open" architecture.
PCPer's live blog said:The Core itself of Quark will not be open, but the FABRIC will be open. Not quite the ARM licensing model.
Is anyone even covering this event? Seems apple is all people care about today.
Hopefully one of his colleagues covers IDF...
* Intel CEO Brian Krzanich showed a Intel Core Haswell-Y based ultrabook that because of its low-power consumption, it has a TDP of 4.5W, can run fanlessly. Both Core i5 and i7 processors will be available in a fanless configuration.
Despite Intel only releasing Haswell-based PCs and tablets very recently this year Krzanich showed a working ultrabook based on the architecture that will succeed Haswell, Broadwell, and said the first products will be available by the end of this year. Broadwell shrinks the die-size of Haswell to 14nm, offering what Krzanich said it a "30 percent power improvement" and performance improvements over ultrabooks running a Haswell-class Core processor.
Broadwell products by the end of the year?
Broadwell products by the end of the year?
The end of year was in reference to Baytrail tablets. Still it's good to see that Broadwell is on track... and another 30% improvement in battery life over Haswell would be quite impressive.
Boo for having to wait 'til tomorrow at least for Baytrail.
The end of year was in reference to Baytrail tablets. Still it's good to see that Broadwell is on track... and another 30% improvement in battery life over Haswell would be quite impressive.
Boo for having to wait 'til tomorrow at least for Baytrail.
Krzanich showed a working ultrabook based on the architecture that will succeed Haswell, Broadwell
Stacey Higginbotham said:As for the core Intels spokeswoman Caludia Mangano said that the first product in the Quark family is a synthesizable Pentium ISA compatible CPU core.
No, it was clearly stated that Broadwell would be out before the end of the year. He didn't mince words, specifically said Broadwell. What specifically that entails, is unknown - maybe only specific SKUs, but it definitely won't be out for LGA, that's for sure.
This is what he said, and then he held a broadwell tablet in his hand:
Very interesting. Intel is indeed hellbent on the mobile wars...
He's wrong. Broadwell will not be available until next year.
The finfet PR talk was done to perform a shock-and-awe campaign on the decision makers at OEMs who were (at the time) in the stages of making decisions regarding what MPU their 2014 and 2015 products would be built around.
Intel had to convince decision makers that the risk of going x86 instead of ARM wasn't going to be assured career suicide for those folks at the customer who were tasked with making those critical decisions. So you do what is necessary to make it a justifiable decision by making sure everyone thinks "well sure its x86 with its overhead, but they'll be on those fancy power-sipping 3D xtors whereas the ARM SoCs will be on bog-standard planar HKMG".
Broadwell shipping this year:
http://fudzilla.com/home/item/32458-intel-promises-10nm-2015
Volume shipments next year, 10nm in 2015.