Intel Rolls Out 10nm Pentium/Celeron CPUs, Previews Rocket Lake

[Inopia]

Huh? Every even-numbered model number (i.e. if you look at the thousands digit) introduced a new socket, going clear back to Sandybridge. Sanybridge (2000-series), Haswell (4000-series), Skylake (6000-series), Coffee Lake (8000-series), and Comet Lake (10000-series). This simply maintains the pattern.

TBH they kind of skipped the 5th gen by not really releasing more than token Broadwell dektop offerings.

[Slartifartblast]

Underwhelming Intel, as Peter Cook once sang, "You fill me with inertia"

[davidbepo]

Still no sign of a desktop Tremont / Jasper Lake desktop CPU... They released the J5005 in Q4'17, and still no successor.

uhhhm, hi https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us...-3-30-ghz.html

[Templar82]

"create your STEM project up to 78% faster."

That is some serious use of marketing buzzwords
I wonder what they are actually referring to.

[vladpetric]

To be fair, AMD's side isn't much prettier. ECC support was left to motherboard manufacturers and most don't do it. I heard that only Ryzen-pro models really support ECC on enterprise-class PCs.

Yeah, the discussion of whether retail AMD Ryzen processors support ECC spawned a light-year thread in the prior article (the one about Linus).

You know, there is actually a way to test it out to some degree. With an AMD Ryzen retail, on an x570 pro mobo or similar, you try vanilla rowhammer (not ECCploit) ... If you're successful at vanilla rowhammer, it means that ECC doesn't work. If you're not successful ... well, you haven't really learnt much.

[vladpetric]

They don't have AVX? Ouch. Didn't some big distro drew the line of support on AVX capable CPUs recently? If that is the case, those brand new CPUs wouldn't be supported.

Yeah it totally sucks ... OTOH AVX isn't exactly a power-friendly instruction set ... if you want 6W TDP, you gotta sacrifice some stuff.

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No ECC memory support I presume.

what Linus said ...

To be fair, AMD's side isn't much prettier. ECC support was left to motherboard manufacturers and most don't do it. I heard that only Ryzen-pro models really support ECC on enterprise-class PCs.

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I'm glad the Tremont-based CPUs are finally getting launched. These aren't your grandaddy's Atoms.

The only real complaint I have is about the lack of AVX/AVX2. Don't care about AVX-512, but it'd be nice of these little cores would finally reach ISA parity with Haswell.

They don't have AVX? Ouch. Didn't some big distro drew the line of support on AVX capable CPUs recently? If that is the case, those brand new CPUs wouldn't be supported.

[hajj_3]

The only real complaint I have is about the lack of AVX/AVX2. Don't care about AVX-512, but it'd be nice of these little cores would finally reach ISA parity with Haswell.

Those celeron and pentium chips don't use Xe graphics and no AV1 decoding. So they are a lot worse than they could have been. Will have to wait another generation for them to be more enticing.

[vladpetric]

No ECC memory support I presume.

what Linus said ...