Celeron M announced

[Pandamonium]

http://news.google.com/url?ntc=0M4C2&q=http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/05/HNceleron_1.html

It's a Pentium M w/ 512k cache instead. IMO, it shouldn't be too shabby of a performer seeing as how the Pentium M disables much of its cache most of the time anyway.

news.google.com rocks my world.

 

[Pandaren]

Official Intel Announcment

Looks like a great product I wonder how it performs.

 

[GnomeCop]

thats rad man

 

[nmcglennon]

I wanna see benchmarks...

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Wow, a Celeron with potential. Haven't seen one since the Tualatin core. Most of the P4 Celeron's problems are rooted in its lack of/slow cache.

- M4H

 

[Freejack2]

And it's already for sale in a Dell Laptop.
Latitude D505

Price doesn't seem that great yet. The Celeron M 1.2 is only $100 cheaper than a Pentium M 1.4

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: xjedimasterx
http://news.google.com/url?ntc=0M4C2&q=http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/05/HNceleron_1.html

It's a Pentium M w/ 512k cache instead. IMO, it shouldn't be too shabby of a performer seeing as how the Pentium M disables much of its cache most of the time anyway.

news.google.com rocks my world.

That's the only thing the M has going for it. You knock the cache to 512 and it won't be keeping up with any 2+ P4. The Celeron is meant to be a slower performing "cheap man's" CPU for websurfing and office apps, and that's all this one is. There is no more potential here except extended battery life.

 

[Pandaren]

That's the only thing the M has going for it. You knock the cache to 512 and it won't be keeping up with any 2+ P4

A 1.30 GHz Pentium M performs like a 1.8-2.0 GHz Northwood, so at 1.20 GHz the Celeron M certainly won't be beating a faster Pentium 4, but I am sure it will provide enough performance for most people.

L2 cache is important, but beyond a certain point throwing more cache into a CPU gives rapidly diminishing performance returns. The Pentium 4 Willamette -> Northwood transition, which doubled the cache of the P4 from 256 to 512 kb of L2, gave between 5-9% performance improvement.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1574&p=13

I would guess that 512KB -> 1MB of L2 cache on the Banias core probably yields similar or less performance gains. There's no way to know of course until benchmarks come out, but I would not expect this chip to be a poor performer.