Has anand been asleep at the wheel? I've read nothing about intel's new 7 watt ("cTDP Down" or "scenario design power") cpus. I've read next to nothing about 7 watt cpus. Does anyone have any data or benchmarks or anything about them?
I would think the i3-3229Y would make for a very nice ultraportable.
cTDP down is different from Scenario Design Power. Also its 10W with cTDPdown, the 7W is one mode below that.
I think the key to new power modes like cTDP and Scenario Design Power is that systems have to be designed for worst-case scenarios.
There's probably a real world usage relevance to Scenario Design Power that they have yet to explain.
If it means as it says, I think one possibility is this:
Imagine running a Core chip on Android or iOS. Why would you do that I don't know, but because you don't have "big" applications there it would be practically impossible to stress the CPU. In that "Scenario" you can run at even lower frequency and be perfectly fine.
If you put that same chip on Windows, you have to design for TDP because then that is the WORST case scenario.