Intel 22nm smartphone SoC delayed to 2014
It's interesting to see how many Intel slide decks have surfaced e.g. leaked on the web this week. Here's another one, Intel slides show that the company's 22nm smartphone chip are delayed to Q1 2014 at the earliest. The lowest-power ValleyView chip is likely to be the Bay Trail-T, which offers a sub-3W TDP. The Bay Trail-M has a sub-4W to 6.5W TDP, while Bay Trail-D offers a sub-12W TDP. These chips are aimed towards tablets and budget notebooks.
Full details can be read at DailyTech BTW. To be fair, it did seem overly ambitious to somehow be able to jam out ValleyView/Silvermont in 2013. Not only is the release a die shrink, which adds the FinFET "3D" transistor design first employed in 2012's Ivy Bridge personal computer chip release, but it also adds other features like a seventh generation graphics core (with DirectX 11 support). Also added is support for DDR3L (the low powered version of DDR3 for mobile devices), USB 3.0, and on-die security/authentication features.
The chip also undergoes important structural changes; most notably, the current CedarView is comprised of 2 SoCs (processor+chipset), while the ValleyView brings the chipset onto the processor die, unifying the two chips into a single die. The chip will also be the first Atom to be offered in a quad-core variety.
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im al for branching out. But maybe intel should stay out of the cell phone market.
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With the traditional PC market shrinking it's not a matter of branching out, it's a matter of surviving in the mobile world.
Without mobile products which bring tangible benefits x86 will become irrelevant. The future of Intel rests on delivering tangibly better chips (with better margins Intel is accustomed to) then ARM competitors.
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They would still survive with traditional PC. I'd rather say it is profitability that makes them enter the promising smartphone market.
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Not really, ARM may sell more chips but device manufacturers have crappy margins since a typical SoC will sell for 20$ while Intel has huge margins on desktop parts which run into hundreds of dollars.
Intel would be very happy if the traditional PC market wasn't shrinking and that they could ignore smartphones. The reality is different and technology is moving towards device integration, this means Intel needs to figure out how to make money in the soc market.
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It's interesting to see how many Intel slide decks have surfaced e.g. leaked on the web this week. Here's another one,Â*Â*Intel slides show Â*that the company's 22nm smartphone chip are delayed to ...
Intel 22nm smartphone SoC delayed to 2014
This might actually give ARM a bit of breathing space which may hurt Intel by the time they release this in 2014... If Intel wants to stay competitive, they need the chip out by end of 2013.
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