Today’s Intel News
To make a longer story short, here's what we have in store today, regarding Intel - Atom's pricing and manufacturing costs, their answer to AMD's tri-core processors, as well as their upcoming instruction set extensions, Intel AVX. Are you ready for the ride? Let's go!
First of all, Intel Atom - as you probably remember, we talked about it on the 3rd of March, when it was announced by Intel, but back then, I had no idea what gold mine managed to create Intel with this processor...
The current line-up of Atom processor is the following:
- Atom Z500, 800 MHz clock speed, 512 KB L2 cache, FSB400, 0.65 watt TDP, $45 (including chipset)
- Atom Z510, 1.1 GHz, 512 KB, FSB400, 2 watt, $45 (including chipset)
- Atom Z520, 1.33 GHz, 512 KB, FSB533, Hyperthreading, 2 watt, $65 (including chipset)
- Atom Z530, 1.60 GHz, 512 KB, FSB533, Hyperthreading, 2 watt, $95 (including chipset)
- Atom Z540, 1.86 GHz, 512 KB, FSB533, Hyperthreading, 2.4 watt, $160 (including chipset)
The most interesting part about it is that, according to various industry sources, the price of a single Atom processor is somewhere between $6 and $8, so the profit margin is simply incredible, if this proves to be true!
Next, it's the tri-core business - according to Intel, the Pentium E series performs better, and they even claim the tri-core processors are quad-cores with one defective or disabled core. Yeah, righ, and I saw Elvis at the store today, too!
At last, Intel made public the details about their Intel AVX general purpose architecture, expected to enrich the existing instructions set, further extending the available raw power in desktop, mobile and server processors. The interesting part is that the instruction format leaves room for future improvements, because the Advanced Vector Instructions compresses prefix and escape, with parts of the format defined now, and others, left free for future use. Anyway, this seems to be only theory now, but who knows what's going to be the effect in a year or two, after this instruction set will be introduced?
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