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Intel Unveils 5th Gen Core Series Broadwell-U CPUs and Cherry Trail Atom
MojoKid writes Intel has officially taken the wraps off its 5th generation Core Series notebook processor, code named Broadwell-U. This new SoC is a "tick" in Intel's tick-tock plan, which means it's mostly a die shrink of the existing Haswell architecture, at least on the CPU side. On the GPU side, there's a bevy of improvements and advances, and the video decoder block has been beefed up with dual bit stream decoders in its high-end (GT3) hardware. Other feature improvements and capabilities are expected, though Intel has been quiet on exactly what they have tweaked and changed to date. Intel is claiming that the architecture will boost battery life by 1.5 hours, speed video conversions, and offer a whopping 22% improvement to 3D performance — a gain on par with what we saw when moving from Ivy Bridge to Haswell. Intel also took the wraps off their next gen Atom CPU, code named Cherry Trail. This is essentially a 14nm Bay Trail die shrink that's been on the roadmap for a while. As with Haswell-Broadwell, the Bay Trail-Cherry Trail shift is aimed at improving CPU power consumption and overall SoC power characteristics, though again, we'll see an updated GPU baked in as well.
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Will Apple update the Macbook Air and the Mac mini with these new CPUs?
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These are extremely lame products. A core 2 quad from SEVEN YEARS AGO had more cores, more cache and was probably faster. Moore's law is deader than a norwegian blue.
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And the award for "We had to hire him, he is my brother's wife's nephew and we'll just stick him in the comes up with the most idiotic names on the planet department" (a.k.a. there was not a EXECUTIVE WOMAN in the room when they make these names up room) goes to....
In Intel the lawyers decide what project names you can use.
There are plenty of women executives, covering a diverse distribution of management competence.
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The proper desktop one is delayed still. They have virtually no competition or incentive to release it and with people buying phones, tablets, slates, laptops far more than desktops now, the hardcore desktop community (what's left of it) is going to just have to sit and wait unfortunately.
Also it'll be, as per usual for Intel the past 4 years, about 5% faster than the old one :/ (at the same price though)
Only a matter of time before these Atoms blow the lid off 8 core cpus sadly.
I would hate an Intel only world and I wonder how it survives. Haswel era I5s can easily outdo the 8 core as they are 50% slower per core making it an i3 competitor. Now another 22% boast would put this AMDs premier in Celeron territory.
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Boohoo. I'll have to cry myself to sleep tonight.
Does any one know whats the size of the L0 and L1 cache?
Because not many apps that use native are compiled or tested with non-ARM chipset support, but at least they're trying to catch up.
Get Haswell now get broadwell desktop now or wait for 2016 for sky lake?
Haswell-E sucks the $300 cpu now has less pci-e lanes then the last gen and you need to pay $200 more to get the lanes you used to get with a small MHZ boost.
Aside from mobile devices, I don't understand the competitiveness for speed unless you do video transcoding or similar frequently. I'm still on a first gen i7 920. Processor speed typically isn't a bottleneck anymore (As far as I've seen). It's always video memory and ram.
Am I wrong?
But the real question is, are they going to be underclocked, slow, pathetic pieces of garbage like the first gen mobile Haswells? Plus, some I come across from the 3rd or 4th gen are soldered to the board! If you think I'm exaggerating, the most commonly used 3rd gen celeron mobile CPU had a passmark rating of around 1900-2000. The most common N-series celeron mobile Haswell CPUs is rated barely 1000. That's half the speed.
was hoping for new beef-tastic destkop CPUs.
i want to upgrade... i do... but we just arent here yet. i still have a phenom II quad-core CPU, 4GB DDR2 1066, and a gtx 580 3GB.
would like a super beefy 8+ core CPU with a primary emphasis on individual core performance (i will cool it as necessary), 16GB+ of flavor du jour RAM (DDR4 or whatever, who cares), and speed demon GPU with ~12+GB of stacked DRAM/3D VRAM @ ~1TB/sec.
i want to drive a 4k ~60" TV at 8k with aggressive SMAA and friends.
TSX was disabled in Broadwell and early Haswell chips due to a bug. Do these new Broadwell-U have the TSX fix?
I have an experimental workload for which TSX would be very helpful, due to a need for atomic reads and writes of unaligned 10-byte data items. As far as I can determine, x86 provides no other way to guarantee atomicity of an unaligned 10-byte read or write.
Just who the hell still buys Atoms, Celerons and Pentiums?
The race to add more clock speed has taken a back seat to power conserving. Just for example the Macbook Air has always used a low powered version of the mobile
Intel chip and I would not doubt the Macbook Pro's will eventually see a version. Its been a conversation for a while that some older Macbook Air's are clocked faster then newer models. Could easily say that with some PC models today because its quite common even in non Ultrabook's to see ultra low powered chips. Not only because of low power consumption which has halved from 30 watts to 15 watts or less. But also because many of these chips also save PC and Apple manufactures in costs per chip. Anymore, you want a powerhouse mobile chip you best be spending some cake on a mobile gaming machine. As someone who has used a 4030U Intel chip on a PC and a even slower U series chip on a Macbook Air. Both performed very well and don't suffer because of the low power. Its benefits of better battery life, cooler operation and in tern less weight because of a smaller battery. Are positives that outweigh the clock speed compromises.
You could also try LOCK CMPXCHG16B. However, cacheline-crossing locked operations can be very slow
Similarly, the company is arguing that it can boost battery life by 1.5 hours.
Assuming you are using the same battery.
I bought a lot of 30 laptops for my school w/ 3rd gen Core i3's. Laptops contained a 56Wh battery. Following year, I bought another lot of 30 hours with 4th gen Core i3's. Laptops contained a 47Wh battery. Give the Big 3 a CPU that extends battery life, they package it with a shorter-life battery and pocket the savings.