Intel's Future Chips: News, Rumours & Reviews

[sonoran]

i also couldn't find anything about intel's plans with their lte modems. qualcomm has integrated lte and it wiped the floor with design wins last year. mediatek has one design with integrated lte modem (3rd party iirc) too.

I suspect you're already aware of the XMM7160 LTE modem. While I certainly can't divulge roadmaps, suffice it to say we're painfully aware of how important LTE capability is in the US market.

* Not speaking for Intel Corporation *

 

[de5_Roy]

Intel releases a second generation LTE modem called XMM 7260
MWC 2014: Cat 6 LTE, carrier aggregation, and all the requisite goodies
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/02/24/intel-releases-second-generation-lte-modem-called-xmm-7260/
Intel has twins named Merrifield and Moorestown
MWC 2014: Congratulations on the two bouncing baby 22nm Atoms for phones
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/02/24/intel-twins-named-merrifield-moorestown/

 

[de5_Roy]

New Intel drivers enable Quick Sync on some Pentium, Celeron chips
http://techreport.com/news/26083/new-intel-drivers-enable-quick-sync-on-some-pentium-celeron-chips
can i have hyperthreading enabled on my i5? pretty please! :-3

Take a look at Intel’s Merrifield reference design on display at MWC 2014
http://vr-zone.com/articles/take-look-merrifield-reference-designs-floor-mwc-2014/72866.html

Intel loses control of baseband market
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/34055-intel-loses-control-of-baseband-market

 

[Cazalan]

Intel 256 node NOC
http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/on-chip-network-makes-processor-run-like-a-cluster/

"The demo chip contains a mesh of 256 nodes with independent voltages and clocks and aggregate throughput of 20.2 terabits/second among nodes, according to Intel’s paper on the chip, which is titled: “A 340mV-to-0.9V 20.2Tb/s Source-Synchronous Hybrid Packet/Circuit-Switched 16×16 Network-on-Chip in 22nm Tri-Gate CMOS.”"

 

[de5_Roy]

Intel Haswell-E X99 Chipset “Wellsburg” Details Leaked – With DDR4 Support and Coming in June
http://wccftech.com/intel-haswelle-x99-chipset-wellsburg-details-leaked-ddr4/
10 sata 6Gb/s ports and 40 pcie gen 3.0 lanes from the cpu, capable of 5x8 configuration (quad sli + physx? 😛). the socket is lga2011-3.
i'm more worried about the fivr in the cpu. xbitlabs was not impressed with how it jacked up cpu vcore too much during o.c. (in auto modes.), making offset-based o.c. very difficult.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/haswell-overclocking.html

 

[de5_Roy]

Intel Confirms Devil's Canyon, Haswell-E, Broadwell Rumors
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-haswell-e-devils-canyon-pentium-anniversary-edition-broadwell,26326.html
new stuff:

because people ask for intel's unlocked dual core, so it's here. to annihilate amd's cheap quadcores. or not. fx6300 is so cheap...

this my first time seeing "better t.i.m." being pitched as an attraction. intel did make desktop users suffer since ivy bridge, though. :lol:

 

[RussK1]

this my first time seeing "better t.i.m." being pitched as an attraction. intel did make desktop users suffer since ivy bridge, though. :lol:

Still will unless they go back to using solder. There is no replacement for it...

 

[Cazalan]

Unlocked Pentium huh, what about i3? Something tells me AMD will only be selling video cards soon.

Between BayTrail-D and unlocked Pentiums the low end is getting crushed.

 

[truegenius]

^ i am sure that they will price it equal to top i3 chips which is not that bad

 

[de5_Roy]

Haswell refresh to ship next month
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/34298-haswell-refresh-to-ship-next-month
april 1st? 😛

intel iris pro powered gigabyte brix pro runs indie game developer coffee stain's goat simulator at gdc demo
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/03/25/goat-simulator-best-game-gdc/
not amd!
move over crysis 3, next gamers will ask,"can it run goat simulator?".

 

[truegenius]

Haswell refresh to ship next month
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/34298-haswell-refresh-to-ship-next-month
april 1st? 😛

intel iris pro powered gigabyte brix pro runs indie game developer coffee stain's goat simulator at gdc demo
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/03/25/goat-simulator-best-game-gdc/
not amd!
move over crysis 3, next gamers will ask,"can it run goat simulator?".

this phrase seemed never ending to me, but finally i read it to the end in first try 😛

BAA.. 😛

 

[de5_Roy]

this phrase seemed never ending to me, but finally i read it to the end in first try 😛

BAA.. 😛

there are longer. replace "coffee stains" with "wayforward technologies" and "goat simulator" with any of these - "SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab", "Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!" or "Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON’T KNOW!".
...
...
...
and replace "intel iris pro" with "intel core i7 4770R with iris pro graphics". 😛

 

[de5_Roy]

if you're a uber hardcore amd enthusiast, looking for a way to cool your toasty new quadfired radeon r9 295 x2 and overclocked fx9590 rig? i know how. 😗
http://semiaccurate.com/2014/04/09/3m-intel-sgi-immersion-cool-high-density-servers-novec/

does this mean no more costa rica (cpu o.c. friendly) cpus?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2141700/intel-cuts-1500-jobs-in-costa-rica-consolidates-some-operations-in-asia.html

Xeon Phi 7120A 22nm Knights Corner launched
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/34454-xeon-phi-7120a-22nm-knights-corner-launched
Broadwell will miss back-to-school spree
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/34418-broadwell-will-miss-back-to-school-spree

edit:
Intel Core "Haswell" Refresh CPUs Launch Date Revealed
http://www.techpowerup.com/199755/intel-core-haswell-refresh-cpus-launch-date-revealed.html

It looks like Intel will launch its Core "Haswell" Refresh line of processors sooner than Computex 2014. According to sources in the IT retail, Intel could launch these new chips, led by the Core i7-4790K, on May 10th in most markets.

 

[Cazalan]

I'm more interested in when the ones with new TIM will launch.

 

[de5_Roy]

I'm more interested in when the ones with new TIM will launch.

intel's promo slide says "unlocked 4th gen core processor", with "improved t.i.m." et al, codename devil's canyon. that points to core i7 4790k, i5 4690k cpus as the devil's canyon cpus.

 

[Tradesman1]

Prob early-mid May for the base refresh and Z97 mobos, the Devils Canyon in third quarter

 

[Cazalan]

Intel boosting multi-monitor support out of the box, and bye-bye VGA.


"The "Cherryview" Atom processors feature "Gen8" graphics (Broadwell) capabilities, there's three display pipes, three HDMI/DisplayPort/EmbeddedDisplayPort ports, two MIPI DSI display ports, and VGA support has been dropped from Cherryview. "


http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY2MDA

 

[de5_Roy]

Intel Starts Shipping 'Haswell Refresh' Processors
http://www.techpowerup.com/199861/intel-starts-shipping-haswell-refresh-processors.html

 

[Cazalan]

Intel Starts Shipping 'Haswell Refresh' Processors
http://www.techpowerup.com/199861/intel-starts-shipping-haswell-refresh-processors.html

That's wild, an i3 shipping at higher stock frequency than i5 and i7.

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes but only 2 cores

 

[Isaiah4110]

I didn'te realize that there was such little difference between the mobile i5 and i3 CPUs. According to the minimal data on that chart there doesn't even appear to be any difference...

 

[de5_Roy]

I didn'te realize that there was such little difference between the mobile i5 and i3 CPUs. According to the minimal data on that chart there doesn't even appear to be any difference...

in desktop, the obvious difference is in core count. the exception is the lowest end core i3, which has less L3 cache and prolly lower tier igpu. in mobile it's mainly in L3 cache size, turbo, clockrates and some instruction sets and fixed function features like aes-ni. mobile i3 has no turbo boost. mobile i5 and i7 both have turbo boost and ht, but dual core i7 has more L3 cache and higher end ones have 4 core with ht. some of the higher end mobile i7 may be overclockable.
intel is quite helpful in conveying those differences in their model numbering scheme.


that last bit isn't true.

edit:
"Broadwell has been qualified for production to begin this month, executives said."
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2144160/as-pc-market-stabilizes-intel-looks-to-growing-comms-business.html

Intel releases Windows and Android cross-platform development tool INDE
http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-releases-windows-android-cross-platform-development-tool-inde/76056.html

 

[Isaiah4110]

I didn'te realize that there was such little difference between the mobile i5 and i3 CPUs. According to the minimal data on that chart there doesn't even appear to be any difference...

in desktop, the obvious difference is in core count. the exception is the lowest end core i3, which has less L3 cache and prolly lower tier igpu. in mobile it's mainly in L3 cache size, turbo, clockrates and some instruction sets and fixed function features like aes-ni. mobile i3 has no turbo boost. mobile i5 and i7 both have turbo boost and ht, but dual core i7 has more L3 cache and higher end ones have 4 core with ht. some of the higher end mobile i7 may be overclockable.
intel is quite helpful in conveying those differences in their model numbering scheme.


that last bit isn't true.

edit:
"Broadwell has been qualified for production to begin this month, executives said."
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2144160/as-pc-market-stabilizes-intel-looks-to-growing-comms-business.html

Intel releases Windows and Android cross-platform development tool INDE
http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-releases-windows-android-cross-platform-development-tool-inde/76056.html

That's what I would have expected to see, but the chart is showing the same L3 cache (3MB) on all mobile i5 and i3 refresh models. They also all have HT (2 cares, 4 threads) and the top model in each refresh line has the same frequency. The majority of the i3 models actually appear to be running at a faster frequency than their i5 brethren.

So that's what has me baffled here. There either has to be an error in the chart here or the only differences between these processors are in instruction set capabilities and igpu capabilities not reflected in the chart.

 

[de5_Roy]

Spoiler

That's what I would have expected to see, but the chart is showing the same L3 cache (3MB) on all mobile i5 and i3 refresh models. They also all have HT (2 cares, 4 threads) and the top model in each refresh line has the same frequency. The majority of the i3 models actually appear to be running at a faster frequency than their i5 brethren.

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/14-04-14/Intel_Haswell_Refresh_mobile_01.jpg

So that's what has me baffled here. There either has to be an error in the chart here or the only differences between these processors are in instruction set capabilities and igpu capabilities not reflected in the chart.

that chart only shows base clockrate. like i said, mobile i5 has turbo boost unlike mobile i3 cpus. that's one of the main differences between those.

 

[Isaiah4110]

That definitely helps explain things. Thanks for the clarification.