Overview of all Atom derivatives

[Gigantopithecus]

Was it ever relevant? Slow is slow, regardless of power consumption.

Absolutely. It was great for netbooks and browsing/typing nettops. Then the E-350 was released.

 

[IntelUser2000]

The 2nd post in this thread needs to be updated regarding Cedartrail graphics, which is PowerVr (GMA3600/3650) and NOT Intel's inhouse graphics. Also 1080p decoding is no longer a rumour, but fact, and release is Q3 2011.

Yes, I saw your post. But I didn't see the need to update as I wanted to update all at once.

So I did.

Major updates done, see changelog. BTW, I try to keep speculation to minimum here.

 

[RU482]

Great post. thanks!

 

[denev2004]

Thanks. Intel's Atom strategy is a bit strange. That will help me to understand it

 

[Arkaign]

Here is my overview of all Atom products :

And E350/E450 are nearly as bad. We're probably not too far from a reasonably fast sub-10W cpu though. Once we get to C2D Dual-Core performance from Q3 2006 (!!!), I will believe we have finally arrived at a product that will be a game changer, as that's enough CPU power for reasonable performance across the board, not just highly optimized specialties here and there.

 

[IntelUser2000]

Minor updates than last time, but still done. Added official information on Medfield. Berryville and Valleyview added too.

It's interesting that Valleyview is using Gen based GPU based on Ivy Bridge. That'll allow far superior graphics in spaces outside of Android. Something I've been wanting to see, maybe they are listening to me.

 

[tangey]

Nice work with the updates.

For next time you can add following confirmed info on medfield

Z2460 single core cpu, SGX540 graphics
Z2480 dual-core CPU, SGX544MP2@533Mhz graphics

 

[IntelUser2000]

Thanks to all that read this thread.

Tangey: The reason I don't post specific SKUs are because SKUs are arbitrary. There's no rules to what's possible. I can see about adding the two, I just don't know if that'll be all there is.

 

[ninaholic37]

It's interesting that Valleyview is using Gen based GPU based on Ivy Bridge. That'll allow far superior graphics in spaces outside of Android. Something I've been wanting to see, maybe they are listening to me.

Interesting thread. I also liked hearing the details for the next-gen ValleyView (reading some articles on it now). Do you own any netbooks?

 

[Vic Vega]

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[OBLAMA2009]

netbook is a nice form factor but atom performance has killed it. id buy a couple new netbooks tommorow if they were a faster, but i think ultrabooks will come down in price before that happens

 

[IntelUser2000]

Interesting thread. I also liked hearing the details for the next-gen ValleyView (reading some articles on it now). Do you own any netbooks?

Thanks. I don't have any Netbooks, but my brother used to own one and I have a Atom based UMPC(Ultra Mobile PC), that you can see in my sig.

Some are talking that Atom for Netbook/Nettop segment will disappear after Cedar Trail and be replaced by low end Ivy Bridge and its successors. At 22nm, Ivy Bridge isn't too much bigger than Cedarview chips and its debatable if at really small die sizes packaging costs dominate enough to make any smaller dies insignificant, at least for Netbooks and Nettops.

Think of future Atoms as Smartphones, Tablets, and Embedded.

 

[tangey]

I see some sites are suggesting that the evolution after clovertrail will start to use intel graphics for tablets, and even suggesting that merrifield will also use intel graphics.

Don't think Intel is at a point even on 22nm whereby their own graphics can be viable at the lowest power profile, and possibly neither on die size. At Intel's investor conference last week, Otellini said

"Smartphone app processors are $25-30, tablets maybe $5 more. We've archeitectured our die sizes to be able to be highly profitable and price competitive in those segments.

So it appears that they remain die size sensitive to keep the cost price down. Don't know if that significantly changes @ 22nm.

 

[coffey]

Great work

 

[ultimatebob]

The real question that I have is still this:

When is Intel going to release some decent 64 bit Linux drivers for this platform?

It's really sad that a 32 bit installation of Windows 7 will run circles around it.

 

[IntelUser2000]

Updates to Medfield and added Merrifield.

The real question that I have is still this:

When is Intel going to release some decent 64 bit Linux drivers for this platform?

It's really sad that a 32 bit installation of Windows 7 will run circles around it.

It should happen in the 22nm generation when Intel moves away from PowerVR Graphics to their own GenX.

 

[chrone]

Looking for intel atom dual core for android with much much better gpu.

 

[NTMBK]

Oh my goodness they're SO CUTE