Charlie all that NVIDIA bashing has taken a toll on you on your investigative abilities? Some time ago, you would have the insight of what we could expect from CPU architectures and the like in the future. Now, you are not doing your homework. How could you miss out on explaining that QuickAssist, more than a marketing name, is a fully embeded FPGA unit. That is what makes Tolapai special even if the TDP is still high. It's sad to see you are loosing the research capabilities that before put you above the rest. What you are doing now is no more than regurgitating specs thrown either by intel or rumor mills. I really hope you stop and look how you are stomping on all the work that made you gain respect.

what means this? .."and there is an industrial temp version (-40c to 85c) of the 600MHz variant as well."...

i work at intel and i've never heard of these things......mushrooms all of us!!

Remain calm. Take a seat if necessary.

Perhaps they are giving out the TDP for system builders who must design assuming that power level and make their system work to those specifications.

It annoys me to no end that Intel keeps publishing TDP only for all of it's recent processors, giving us consumers no indication whatsoever how much power a chip is likely to draw when the system is idle or under light use. This makes it impossible to guesstimate battery life when spec'ing laptops, for example.

Intel has an entire lineup of laptop processors, for example, all rated at 35W TDP for wildly different clock rates, cache sizes, manufacturing processes, and so forth, and there is no way they all have the same idling characteristics.

It's infuriating.