Intel Debuts New Atom System-on-Chip Processor

[dEAne]

wow that's impressive I will wait for that on cars and appliance too.

 

[theoutbound]

It's nice to see Intel at least pushing ARM so we won't see the market stagnate. I can't wait to see these Atoms in some devices to see what can of performance and battery life we get out of them.

 

[princessolive]

No out of order execution in the atom, gives it an unpleasant performance hit. Other than that they are pretty useful. I'm waiting for AMDs version though.

 

[eddieroolz]

Everyone cheer, moar Atoms! /s

 

[Guest]

Is it safe to say that these are inferior to both ARM CPUs and AMD Ontario for performance at a given power envelope?



It looks impressive until you realize that there are more robust ARM CPUs with a sub-1watt power envelope. 2.7 watts is still too high for a smartphone, considering that the performance is still going to suck...

 

[ctmk]

I got a pfsense router running on ATOM D510... It's too perfect, next i want a home NAS running on ATOM with windows home server with 10TB of storage and raid 1 to 5TB so that it is capable of safe storage of my precious data like HD home videos and lossless/highquality photos plus the recorded shows.

 

[dealcorn]

I have an Atom D510 running software raid 5 and 2 P2P daemons on a headless Debian stable server. While it functions as a file server, I have not yet turned on NFS. I would have been adequately served by a D410 instead because in my home usage pattern CPU utilization is typically under 15% and typically never reaches 45% other than during upgrades. Interestingly for software Raid 5, my impression is that, for a given file activity, level CPU utilization for parity checking should go down as the number of disks goes up. So my 3 X 2TB configuration is worst case.

Congratulations to those who have finally recognized that Atom is a wimpy chip. I agree and maybe it should never be used unless its performance is exactly what it required and it offers the cheapest (and best supported) and lowest energy use option available like it did for me. My recollection is that I paid under $90 for an itx server class board from Gigabyte with 4 sata ports. Today, Pricewatch has precisely 0 itx motherboards with CPU from someone other than Intel available for under $100.

Also, I do not understand home use of Raid 1 over software Raid 5 for for infrequently accessed media files unless its a Windows thing.

 

[knownballer]

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Lol Best answer I've seen so far.

I know this is pretty late but still not sure what the difference is. From my best assessment a SOC just has a lot of chips in the same place rather than putting those chips on the same board, and an APU is more like how different parts of the cpu that were separate are now part of the chip (i.e. memory controller, FP, etc). But when looking at the charts of bobcat, it looks pretty much the same as some of the soc chips I've seen. So I was wondering what exactly the fully integrated part describes. Does this mean that the gpu is actually part of the cpu architecture?