Intel released silver Pentium and two Celeron: 6W ultra-low-power platform CPU

Yesterday, Intel officially released a new generation of ultra-low power platform Gemini Lake, including the silver Pentium, Celeron two sequences. Gemini Lake and the previous generation of low-power platform Apollo Lake continue to use 14nm manufacturing process, the main improvement is that Optimize the architecture, slightly increase the frequency, and continue to significantly improve video hardware decoding capabilities.

We may still remember the story of 'Pentium Gold.' Since Intel abandoned the E5 / E7 series name on the Xeon Xeon server platform and shifted to the 'Platinum, Gold, Silver and Copper' positioning division, Up.Kaby Lake seven generations of core low-end Pentium was renamed the Gold Pentium (Pentium Gold), intended to indicate that this is the 'best Pentium'; and starting from Atom ultra-low-power platform CPU, this time It became a Pentium Silver.

The first release of the 6 models, desktop CPU and mobile CPU of the three, respectively, a silver Pentium and two Celeron.

Desktop silver Pentium J5005 quad-core four-thread, 4MB L3 cache, clocked at 1.5-2.8GHz, dual-channel memory DDR4 / LPDDR4-2400 support, up to 8GB. Compared to the previous generation, L3 cache doubled, clock speed increased 0.2GHz, memory support has also been upgraded, while the thermal design power at 10W, the price is still 161 US dollars.

Celeron J4105 clocked at a slightly lower 1.5-2.5GHz; Celeron J4005 is 2.0-2.7GHz dual-core processor. Three processors equipped with the core graphics frequency in turn have decreased. However, these two models The difference between Celeron is far greater than the difference between Silver Pentium and Celeron, the price is the same 107 dollars, puzzling.

Mobile platform silver Pentium N5000, Celeron N4100, Celeron N4000 are the above three were reduced to 1.1-2.7GHz clock speed, 1.1-2.4GHz, 1.1-2.6GHz, core graphics card to reduce the frequency of each 100MHz, hot Design power consumption is reduced to 6W accordingly.

In terms of video codecs, this generation of Gemini Lake has 'evolved' to support 10-bit VP9 video decoding and supports four-stream video decoding with a 33% increase in bandwidth over Apollo Lake, more than twice the size of Braswell's native HDMI 2.0 Standard.According to Lei Feng network understanding, in fact from earlier Braswell already support 4K level H.264, H.265, VP8 video format hardware decoding, and 1080p VP9, ​​MPEG-2, VC-1 hardware decoding, this generation Gemini Lake can be said to be perfect.

What deserves to be noted here is that the Gemini Lake architecture is an evolution of Atom's ultra-low-power CPU that was synonymous with low-power, low-performance Atom, removing out-of-order functions and performance for low power consumption Also has a significant decline in today's ultra-low-power CPU in accordance with the concept of SoC to further improve system integration, communication modules, peripheral controllers are integrated in the CPU, without focusing on CPU computing performance, so even on behalf of Gemini The two Silver Pentium specs in the Lake look good and are not as fast as the low-end CorelDRM series (CPU on a 12-inch Macbook) at the low end of the Core Duo (7th Generation Kaby Lake, Generation 8 Coffee Lake).

Intel claims that they can deliver 58% more office productivity, edit photos, or create videos by half as compared to the entry-level platform four years ago. Devices based on these new CPUs will debut in 2018, including low-cost notebooks , Combo equipment, mini machine, one machine, thin client PC and so on.