Intel is Stepping on the Gas for Atom CPU Plans
New Atom technology every year for the next three years. Get ready for faster Atoms.
Intel's latest desktop and laptop chips are of the Sandy Bridge family, but when it comes to the entry-level price points and netbooks, it's all about the Atom.
The Atom processor family hasn't been getting the love that Intel's desktop-class chips get, but that'll all change. Intel's Executive Vice President Sean Maloney at his Computex address highlighted key milestones and additional details on upcoming generations of Intel Atom processor-based platforms for tablets, netbooks and smartphones.
Intel says that the upcoming Atom processor innovations will actually outpace Moore’s Law, accelerating from 32nm through 22nm to 14nm within three successive years. Improvements from one generation to the next will include reduction in transistor leakage, lower active power and increase of transistor density to enable more powerful smartphones, tablets, netbooks with more features and longer battery life.
Reaching its 100 million-unit milestone this month, Intel is preparing its next-generation netbook platform, codenamed “Cedar Trail.” Cedar Trail is the first netbook platform based on Intel’s 32nm technology, and will bring ultra-thin, fanless designs with new capabilities such as Rapid Start technology which provides fast resume, Smart Connect Technology which enables always updated experience even during standby, Wireless Display and PC Synch, which let users wirelessly update and synchronize documents, content and media across multiple devices. In addition, the new platform will enable more than 10 hours of battery life and weeks of standby. Cedar Trail will support leading operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome and MeeGo.
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MeeGo is a leading OS?
Not quite sure to what extent the Sandy Bridge architecture will be carried over to devices like tablets, netbooks and smartphones.
For instance, is there any information on prospective x86 core counts, GPU resources (integrated or discrete), etc? Is Intel planning on developing this platforms in-house or is it more a case of out-sourcing? Naturally, the latter option would have to rely on a good working relationship between Intel and it's partners..
I'm starting to love how Intel is leading the market. Instead of downgrading its series to compete with the ARM architecture, it decided to advance it's process, inevitably increasing its performance AND reducing power requirements. Big claps to you sir.
Intel started to loose positions with atom and they want part of the arms share. Right now they have crap load of money so they decided to buy their market share that simple. Look at Atom CPU without competition. Its almost the same for few years. And they want to keep it that way. The best world for Intel is world without competition. If it goes like this. In the future there could be only one manufacturer of cpu or gpu and other application. And its intel.
Well according to this, it looks like Intel could have an uphill struggle in some markets..
Friday 20 May 2011
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ARM- [...] 35635.html
"Earlier this week Intel CEO Paul Otellini revealed intentions to enter the mobile sector. Intel's Renee James later indicated that Microsoft is currently developing four versions of Windows 8: one for x86 and three for ARM-based SoCs.
"Now ARM's mobile strategist James Bruce has come out of the woodwork saying that the mobile market is more complex that what Intel is accustomed to. In fact, the x86 chip maker has an uphill battle in the road ahead, especially in a market seemingly assimilated by ARM thanks to its 95-percent dominance in both cell phone and smartphone sectors. That doesn't even include tablets."