Finally Intel has an answer to ARM's big.little or DynamIQ or whatever horrendous acronym they'll come up with next. This chip would be perfect for Windows tablets like the Surface Pros and Gos. Let the Atom cores do most of the usual work and let the Sunny Cove cores fire up for app loading and heavy crunching. Windows needs a new x86 scheduler to support this though.
A chip like this makes sense in tablets or laptops. When your are at a conference (like CES) and mostly maybe do some typing and web browsing on your laptop that should be easily handled by atom cores and hence increase battery life. When gaming or something more demanding, the big cores will become useful.
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Alexvrb - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Do all the cores support all the same extended instructions?serendip - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Finally Intel has an answer to ARM's big.little or DynamIQ or whatever horrendous acronym they'll come up with next. This chip would be perfect for Windows tablets like the Surface Pros and Gos. Let the Atom cores do most of the usual work and let the Sunny Cove cores fire up for app loading and heavy crunching. Windows needs a new x86 scheduler to support this though.Jorgp2 - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
With that big a GPU, that thing is defenitely built for a mobile console.darkswordsman17 - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
I speculated that it was for HoloLens gen 2, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Would be a solid chip for standalone VR/AR headset.Jorgp2 - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
I just thought it could be for an Xbox companion device.But they would probably go AMD for that.
bubblyboo - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
That's the big CPU, but these likely aren't to scale. Intel has a long way to go before their iGPUs are even close to viable.Jorgp2 - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
If you read the image you will see it has 64 EUs.Thats what Iris parts had.
GreenReaper - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
They *also* had a shitload or two (technical term for 64MB) of eDRAM as cache:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDRAM
RarG123 - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Lakefield? We going back to Nehalem? :Pbeginner99 - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
A chip like this makes sense in tablets or laptops. When your are at a conference (like CES) and mostly maybe do some typing and web browsing on your laptop that should be easily handled by atom cores and hence increase battery life. When gaming or something more demanding, the big cores will become useful.