Intel's Next Unit of Computing Rivals Raspberry Pi in Size

[silverblue]

[citation][nom]GreaseMonkey_62[/nom]I wish AMD did too. If AMD pushed into similar fields (really small computers like this and smartphones) with their Llano based processors they could start to rake it in. Instead they've left everyone wondering what their plan is.[/citation]
Brazos, more likely.

 

[Guest]

I'm sure AMD will, but will it come 3 years late like Brazos did? Their 3 year late entry into the low power notebook/netbook market cost them billions.

 

[blazorthon]

Blazorthorn, http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/core/3rd-gen-core-family-mobile-brief.html?wapkw=mobile+3rd+generation+i5, FYI.

According to that document: i7, i5, and i3 will have HD4000 on the mobile side. It does not tell you he clock speed of the GPUs but they will be HD4000. Once again, cache size may or may not make a difference and that is determined by the benchmark (the type of data reuse and the size of the data). The extra cache, in fact, will be money wasted for some much like extra cores for people who don't do a great deal of multitasking or don't use applications that are highly threaded. My guess is that Intel probably doesn't clock them lower than 1100 except on the ultra low voltage laptops. Thus, I imagine performance of i5s and even i3s will be quite competitive on the GPU end.

Sigh, let us hope this is the end of this argument.

Okay, I caught my mistake on the HD 4000 versus 2500 being used in the mobile chips, the link that I looked at forgot to mention that it was refering strictly to the desktop chips when it said that HD 4000 was strictly for the i7s and the lone i5. In this case, yes, the Llano APUs alone are then beaten by the Intel HD 4000 equiped i3s and i5s. However, AMD still has the option of CF between the 7470 (also many other low end cards) and the A6s and A8s to beat the HD 4000 within the same budget range, so fine, it's a more level playing field. Fine, for the mobile market, Intel's HD 4000 beats the A8's 6620G when there are no other factors to consider right now. However, like I said, there's still the CF option and it's still within the same price range (often cheaper, but then it's pushing it against some of the i3 machines). Trinity will still bring AMD on top for IGP graphical performance and that will be the end of that at last until Haswell. Regardless, none of that makes me a fanboy, I simply made a minor mistake. AMD is still competing for the graphical performance right now, they just need to CF a discrete card until Trinity. Then it will still be Intel winning in CPU and AMD winning in GPU for the integrated solutions and AMD will still have the CF option should it become necessary when Haswell comes out if Trinity doesn't have a successor by then, or if software necessitates it.

 

[blazorthon]

I'm sure AMD will, but will it come 3 years late like Brazos did? Their 3 year late entry into the low power notebook/netbook market cost them billions.

It's possible, but AMD seems to be kinda tight on budget for that kind of stuff right now. They might be better off if they focus on their current markets and succeed there before joining another market. AMD still has a lot of ground to make up with CPUs, more video cards to release, Trinity to release, Piledriver based CPUs to release, and so much more. I'm not sure if they can afford to jump into another market like that right now unless it were something they could do with little changes made to something they already have.

 

[ProDigit10]

it probably has a higher power consumption too!

 

[WyomingKnott]

"nuc?" Will it be advertised by the Three Stooges?

 

[Guest]

Apple doesn't need to port iOS to Intel architecture. They really wanted to run OS X, but ARM couldn't handle a real OS. Moving to Medfield derivative will let Apple unify their OS across all of their devices.

 

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