Pentium Celeron processor to Atom architecture

The Pentium and Celeron series of processors usually used the same CPU architecture as the Core i7/i5/i3, but this treatment will not come later. After releasing the 22nm process Silvermont architecture Atom, Haswell's Pentium and Celeron will also use this architecture. The Pentium IV and Celeron IVB architecture will be the last generation of products with the desktop CPU architecture.

According to the previous introduction, Silvermont architecture Atom processor performance is three times the previous generation, and power consumption is only one-fifth of the previous generation, so the new architecture Atom is very wide applicability, from smart phones to tablets to the desktop will be There is a figure of it. A new generation of Atom architecture processor code Bay Trail, where Bay Trail-M for mobile platforms, Bay Trai-D is for the desktop market, Intel spokesperson Kathy Gill in the mail that Bay Trail-D will be Celeron, Pentium Nominal sales.

This means that Intel's future Pentium, Celeron series processors will use Atom processor architecture, no longer the same desktop Core i series processor architecture. Intel will announce the Haswell processor at Computex 2013, and the Bay Trail processor is expected to show. Gill claims that "Intel now has the Pentium and Celeron processors of the IVB architecture, and we don't discuss the (not yet released) Haswell processor yet."

Although Intel’s official attitude is ambiguous, from PCWorld’s report, Intel’s plans to expand into the Pentium and Celeron products after the Slivermont architecture is listed, considering the release of the Haswell and Silvermont architecture is small For a half-year difference, the Haswell generation's Celeron and Pentium processors should use the Atom architecture. The current IVB architecture will be the last generation of desktop and CPU architecture products.

On the other hand, Pentium and Celeron series CPUs are not prepared for those who are pursuing performance. Atom's Silvermont architecture has a better performance-per-watt ratio, which is beneficial to reducing power consumption. Before that, Anandtech made a comparison to speculate on Slivermont. The Atom single-core performance of the architecture is equivalent to the Core 2 Duo processor used in the 11-inch Macbook Air in 2010. The Atom frequency used in the Celeron and Pentium series will be even higher, which can compensate for a little loss of performance.