Monday, June 29th 2009
Intel 32 nm Clarkdale Chip Brought Forward to Q4 2009
While the bulk of Intel's upcoming Nehalem and Westmere derived products include quad-core processors, the company hasn't left out dual-core processors just as yet. The dual-core Core i5 desktop processor will be based on the new Clarkdale core, built on the 32 nm Westmere architecture. Originally slated for a Q1 2010 launch, the new chip seems to have been pulled into the Q4 2009 launch schedule, deep enough to make for a significant amount of projected sales, according to sources in the Taiwanese motherboard industry.
The sales projections for Q4 look particularly interesting. Core i5 "Clarkdale" dual-core is projected to amount for 10% of Intel's sales, while Core i7 "Bloomfield" at 1%, Core i5 "Lynnfield" at 2% (Core i7 "Lynnfield" is slated for Q1 2010), Core 2 Quad at 9%, Core 2 Duo E7000/E8000 at 35%, Pentium E5000/E6000 at 31%, Celeron E3000 and Atom together at 9%, Pentium E2000 and Celeron 400 together at 4%. In the following quarter, Clarkdale's sales share is expected to rise to 20%. The numbers prove just how large the market for dual-core processors is, even four years into the introduction of quad-core chips.
Source:
DigiTimes
The sales projections for Q4 look particularly interesting. Core i5 "Clarkdale" dual-core is projected to amount for 10% of Intel's sales, while Core i7 "Bloomfield" at 1%, Core i5 "Lynnfield" at 2% (Core i7 "Lynnfield" is slated for Q1 2010), Core 2 Quad at 9%, Core 2 Duo E7000/E8000 at 35%, Pentium E5000/E6000 at 31%, Celeron E3000 and Atom together at 9%, Pentium E2000 and Celeron 400 together at 4%. In the following quarter, Clarkdale's sales share is expected to rise to 20%. The numbers prove just how large the market for dual-core processors is, even four years into the introduction of quad-core chips.
72 Comments on Intel 32 nm Clarkdale Chip Brought Forward to Q4 2009
Between the P3 and the Core 2 line, AMD's processor architecture was more efficient, clock-for-clock, than Intel's. That does not necessarily mean that AMD's architecture was better.
In fact, I would argue that Intel's architecture won out in the end because they took elements from the P3 and P4D to create the monster that is Core 2; contrast that with AMD, who are still using the Athlon64 architecture and failing to produce chips that can compete with Intel's best.
Intel wasn't found guilty in the USA.
Pentium 4 had a more facinating architecture than Athlon 64 featuring long pipes and a brand new technology, Hyper-Threading. Yes, it couldn't beat Athlon 64 but there is very little changes in AMD processors since the K6. AMD's offerings, therefore, aren't as interesting to disect.
Core 2 is a direct decendant from Core, Pentium M, and Pentium III. Little came from Pentium 4 except the process (65nm).
Duron, Semperon vs Celeron: both are crap.
Just because one outperforms the other doesn't necessarily mean it is a better architecture. I consider NetBurst the best architecture out there because it represented a paradigm shift. It attempted to rewrite how processors are designed and the first attempt didn't work out so great. They fixed the bugs in Nehalem and now NetBurst has returned with a vengence. Eight logical cores for the price of four physical cores; Hyper-Threading has come a long way.
The Semprons were good, used to beat out the low end Pentium 4s which cost like 75% more, with a small overclock it was competing with the high end Pentium 4s. From an engineering stand point you are correct. Its like the argument "PS3s cell processor vs 360s IMB Tri-core". PS3 fan boys can boast about its architecture superiority and pretend to be engineers all they want, just like Intel fan boys that defend Intel’s slow ass Pentium 4s and Ds (back before the core 2 duos) when as customers all that matters is performance not theoretical performance, actual performance relative to price.
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My post in #25 was ambiguous but the message was easy to convey AMD had faster processors at numerous points in time, one can argue theoretically that AMDs had faster processors despite having a slower architecture. But the post was suppose to interpreted as if we are basing architecture superiority to actual performance opposed to theoretical.
Edit 2: It depends what generation of sempron and what generation of Pentium 4 we are talking about. Remember the sempron spanned accross socket A and 754!
Customers only care about getting something that works. Performance is rarely a concern--cost is. $400-600 PCs are still the best selling segment. Faster does not necessarily mean a better architecture. I define architecture supremecy by innovation. In your example of PS3 vs Xbox 360, I'd say it is a tie. PS3 has the Cell Broadband Engine which uses SPEs while Xbox360's tri-core processor can handle two threads per core. They are both fairly innovative in their own regards. Performance is based largely on clockspeed. In examining an architecture, I ignore the clockspeed nullifying performance. Socket 423 Willamette vs Socket 754 Palermo
I used both. Willamette flew on XP and Palermo could barely boot. The story is the same for Celerons. It takes at least twice as long to do everything on a Celeron/Sempron everything else being equal.
As for the Sempron I was reading a classic Xbit Labs review of the Sempron 2600 @ 2.5 GHz destroying a Pentium 4 E @ 3.4 GHz. Interesting read.
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To be fair the slighty OC'd sempron destroyed even the high end Athlons. Semprons were absolute beasts and workhorses. Ultra cheap too.
Heck it still motors most of the games.. i sold it to a friend with my mobo and he uses that setup till he has some cash to update it and he plays games like Fallout 3, The Witcher and NHL 2009 with some drawbacks in eyecandy :)
That being said, I don't find it surprsing Intel is slated to release 32nm tech before AMD, its just simple economics, but will Intel have it better than AMD will eventually do? I honestly don't know, 32nm is small...and its pretty much new territory for mass production, although so was 45nm...and 65...oh well, well see.
Just because the US won't take a stand on something doesn't make it okay. The US has never joined international treaties banning the use of landmines, for example -- does that make them okay, too?
The fact remains is that Intel has been a very, very naughty company in the past, and everything they do can be seen in suspect because of that, which was what I was trying to get at. ;)
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Also, Intel has yet to be found guilty in the US because the cases are not over yet... Intel's final trial is set for August 09... the judge is very pissed off at Intel for screwing with him over and over again... so I doubt this will end well for Intel.
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As for the FTC investigation... FTC has said that they will take all the findings from the AMD vs Intel case to assist in putting down their possible fine.
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As for the state of NY... same applies...