Intel Refresh Coming

[piasabird]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/in...tium-anniversary-edition-broadwell,26326.html

I guess Intel is feeling the competition a little. What you Think?

There is some interesting info from Intel in this article on

Unlocked Pentium?

Haswell MB with DDR4?

Processor refresh around Mid-Year

Haswell 8 core processor?
Probably about $1800 or higher.

Broadwell will have an unlocked CPU with Iris Pro Graphics for the desktop.
If these sell I imagine they will come at a premium cost. I bet someone will buy them.

 

[lehtv]

Wow, an unlocked Pentium is quite something. Never thought they'd do this.

 

[Insomniator]

What competition exactly?

 

[nwo]

What competition exactly?

AMD APUs offer much better graphics than anything Intel has to offer at the moment.

AMD also offers "budget" unlocked chips, or a wider variety of unlocked CPUs, while Intel currently offers it on their $200+ chips.

I honestly do not see an unlocked dual core Pentium gaining much popularity if it's priced above $100, but we will have to wait and see.

 

[lehtv]

I honestly do not see an unlocked dual core Pentium gaining much popularity if it's priced above $100, but we will have to wait and see.

It might just be $99 MSRP, I'm guessing. Over $100 is i3 / FX-6300 territory

 

[norseamd]

how good do you think the haswell e will be?

so is broadwell just a die shrink with some more instruction sets and a video decoder?

what does this multi chip package mean?

 

[Ken g6]

what does this multi chip package mean?

It means they're putting the Crystal Well 128MB cache chip on the same package with Broadwell. Which is mostly good for the on-die GPU, but might help a few other applications too.

 

[piasabird]

Competition say in a tablet. It is probably killing them and Microsoft Too.

On the bright side MS Stock was up to about $39 yesterday. Don't understand that.

 

[mfenn]

Competition say in a tablet. It is probably killing them and Microsoft Too.

On the bright side MS Stock was up to about $39 yesterday. Don't understand that.

MSFT has a new CEO who is more interested in making money than fighting for lost causes (dominance of Windows across all form factors).