Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Intel addresses the shelves and AMD's Fusion

Intel has kicked off its IDF in Beijing, officially launching its Atom Z670 Oak Trail, which is the SoC of the firm intended to compete with ARM processors on the field from the shelves. The first products using this platform are expected to arrive next month. After a false start (see "Intel launches (almost) the Atom Z670" Oak Trail "), Intel uses his Chinese Room to start the processor with great fanfare, but we doubt that this is enough to make the shade for ARM platforms.

Today, only 35 designs are now insured to use the Z670, which is low. There are a few big names such as Fujitsu and Lenovo, as well as some surprises, like Razer should use in its new SoC Switchblade (see "Razer" Atom to play it well "). The statement also presents the SM35 chipset (Whitney Point) of the Oak Trail, the management of the Intel HD Audio, the possibility of using passive cooling systems or decode a 1080p video stream.

The chip etched using a 32 nm core x86 compatible Hyper-Threading running at 1.50 GHz. It embeds a GMA 600 (OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL 2.1, OpenVG 1.1, 400MHz) and a 32-bit controller LPDDR1/LPDDR2 able to support 2 GB of memory. The Atom Z670 will retail for $ 75 per thousand units. Atom Z650 clocked at 1.2 GHz the same should also make its appearance.

Intel has also announced its Cedar Trail. Intel says that this next SoC is very close to the Oak Trail. It will be engraved in 32nm and will support the same multimedia features as well as DisplayPort and HDMI, and the Intel Wireless Music Wireless Display. It will target netbooks should come and walk on the flowerbeds of AMD's Fusion.

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