Certainly a major pivot for them. This is much more specialized than previous offerings. It also seems to end the speculation of Intel moving back into the smartphone space.
Agreed. On top of that the TDP target for reaching that level of performance is disappointing as well. Then again, for IoT where the chip is acting as a controller for some sort of black-box device that's constantly fed mains power and doesn't have a the same display responsibilities as a more traditional computing device, it may not matter much.
Those X1 performance figures are with the GPU clocked at 1Ghz and a TDP of 15W. The 10W figure is Nvidia's power consumption estimate under who knows what workloads. The only number worth talking about is the 15W TDP.
Speaking of which, that's well within the configurable range of Merlin Falcon AMD embedded quadcores. Even at 28nm and configured at a 15W TDP (they can be configured down to 12W), the embedded AMD APUs would be quite competitive with X1. Especially the 8CU models. But Atom and X1 are probably cheaper, and for many embedded applications (such as IoT) you just don't need the oomph. Especially graphics. Fun to talk about though.
I wonder why there's emphasis on things like 'fast gfx and media processing' with 'smooth rich graphics' when the intended use-cases don't have screens.
I think their dream is that this thing controls your car entertainment system, and thus is driving, eg, a driver screen just below the driving wheel, a console screen between the two front seats, and a back passengers screen. Now whether it's cheaper in that role than an ARM solution (which may be multi-chip, but who cares) and whether usable software exists (*cough* Microsoft Sync *cough*) we shall see...
it's probably more for digital image processing, video encode and decode, audio processing, etc. All of these things can happen without a display on the device doing the compute. GPU's are far better suited for certain tasks so it makes sense to include it even if it's not used for the typical user interface. I'm thinking a wifi connected home security system that can record, compress, and stream over the internet. That's probably a good example.
Nice to see new silicon coming from Intel. It should help spur competition.
However, what is the status on Denverton? Anandtech had an article up back in July 15 discussing Denverton. The article included pictures of a developmental motherboard. But there was no information released during IDF in August.
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melgross - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
Certainly a major pivot for them. This is much more specialized than previous offerings. It also seems to end the speculation of Intel moving back into the smartphone space.Pork@III - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
106 to 187 GFlops graphic performance may be BADLY low for new generation SoC?BrokenCrayons - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
Agreed. On top of that the TDP target for reaching that level of performance is disappointing as well. Then again, for IoT where the chip is acting as a controller for some sort of black-box device that's constantly fed mains power and doesn't have a the same display responsibilities as a more traditional computing device, it may not matter much.Cygni - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
I don't think you understand what this chip is for.Pork@III - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
If You and Intel maked cut off with "& more" I will be understand...Morawka - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
how much better is Tegra X1 at Graphics performance and at what TDP?SquarePeg - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
Tegra X1 performance as reported here at Anandtech is 512 GFLOPS (FP32) - 1024 GFLOPS (FP16) @ 10 watts.Alexvrb - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
Those X1 performance figures are with the GPU clocked at 1Ghz and a TDP of 15W. The 10W figure is Nvidia's power consumption estimate under who knows what workloads. The only number worth talking about is the 15W TDP.Speaking of which, that's well within the configurable range of Merlin Falcon AMD embedded quadcores. Even at 28nm and configured at a 15W TDP (they can be configured down to 12W), the embedded AMD APUs would be quite competitive with X1. Especially the 8CU models. But Atom and X1 are probably cheaper, and for many embedded applications (such as IoT) you just don't need the oomph. Especially graphics. Fun to talk about though.
hojnikb - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
Will there be any reviews of apollo lake ? I'm very interested in cpu performance and media playback capability.Ryan Smith - Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - link
Yes, there will be. Though I don't have a solid date for you quite yet.Meteor2 - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
I wonder why there's emphasis on things like 'fast gfx and media processing' with 'smooth rich graphics' when the intended use-cases don't have screens.CaedenV - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
So your robot can have an LCD face that lets it know when it is displeased with humanity and is about to start an uprisingMurloc - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
well some of the use-cases must have screens since they cite that it supports 3 displays.I guess interactive things.
name99 - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
I think their dream is that this thing controls your car entertainment system, and thus is driving, eg, a driver screen just below the driving wheel, a console screen between the two front seats, and a back passengers screen.Now whether it's cheaper in that role than an ARM solution (which may be multi-chip, but who cares) and whether usable software exists (*cough* Microsoft Sync *cough*) we shall see...
Ej24 - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
it's probably more for digital image processing, video encode and decode, audio processing, etc. All of these things can happen without a display on the device doing the compute. GPU's are far better suited for certain tasks so it makes sense to include it even if it's not used for the typical user interface. I'm thinking a wifi connected home security system that can record, compress, and stream over the internet. That's probably a good example.supdawgwtfd - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
If your think NVR type duties then you may be surprised to know that the NVR itself requires 0 GPU functionality.All they do is save the stream supplied by the camera itself.
So a nice fast CPU is what is needed not a GPU at all.
State of Affairs - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
Nice to see new silicon coming from Intel. It should help spur competition.However, what is the status on Denverton? Anandtech had an article up back in July 15 discussing Denverton. The article included pictures of a developmental motherboard. But there was no information released during IDF in August.
Jhlot - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
Where is the Goldmont with no EUs and lots of cores, the Avoton successor?State of Affairs - Tuesday, October 25, 2016 - link
That's Denverton.