In fairness though, Core-based Celeron/Pentium systems are hard to find, and for good reason. They really want to push i3 and above, and for pure price the Atom-based ones is far cheaper.
That makes me uncomfortable just on principle. So many people will wind up with, what, Goldmont? I guess? Not that it's as bad as Baytrail-D but still.
But yeah putting HT on the Pentiums does sort of kill Bristol Ridge for the DIY/retail market. AMD doesn't really have much to sell until Zen arrives.
Well there' still the iGPU element of it, but now Bristol Ridge is being challenged by a sub-$100 chip in CPU performance whereas its former competitor (i3) was above the $100 mark. It's strange that Intel is hitting AMD so hard on the low end when AMD is in a hurry to get out of that market segment anyway.
AMD had a maybe 3-month window of opportunity to sell Bristol Ridge had they launched in October like they were "supposed" to with a full lineup of OEM and DiY markets, but instead we got a paltry smattering of products on the OEM market. It's like they don't even want to sell the things.
I recently contacted Noctua about getting AM4 mounting hardware for the NH-D15 prior to the Ryzen launch and showed them the Asus A320M-C motherboard (AM4, A320 chipset) and Noctua was all "we don't consider AM4 to be on the market yet, so no, not yet". They're effectively correct.
It's rather ironic by far the most interesting chip is the lowly $60 Pentium this time around. It makes the $150 i3-K a complete joke and waaaaaaaay better value than the super overrated G3258.
Intel eased up on some of their market segmentation. I wasn't expecting it.
Too bad the unlocked i3 costs so much. It's reminiscent of Clarkdale actually.
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