Intel Apollo Lake 'Announcement' Light On Details, Does Mention Memory Support And iGPU

[IInuyasha74]

Following Intel's IDF16 in Shenzhen, China, reports swirled that Intel "announced" Apollo Lake. However, that was a mischaracterization.

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[digitalgriffin]

How much more performance can they eek out before they kill Pentium sales?

 

[Xaltar]

Sadly Intel's SoC lineup has actually proved to be one of the more interesting product evolutions (for me at least). The fact that my little N3150 based mATX system can handle all my old games and even manage semi playable FPS in some MMOs while drawing a total of 28w from the wall is quite frankly mind blowing. If Apollo Lake can eek out a little more raw CPU performance as well as beef up the GPU in the same TDP envelope I can see it being wildly appealing in entry level laptops and other basic use devices. I wouldn't advise anyone to use these little SoCs as their sole system but as a cheap travel laptop or HTPC these things really shine.

 

[William Henrickson]

These will make awesome 8" tablets! Can't wait!

 

[bit_user]

I've been waiting for a proper follow-up to the J1900. The N3150 delivered power savings, but not much else.

I'm more interested in it as a lightweight home server platform, actually.

 

[gopher1369]

Agreed with above, have a J1900 based Gigabyte Brix, makes a brilliant Plex server + internet/email PC. Can even play Football Manager on it. Cost me about £120 in total. These are great little chips.