Intel puts out eight new SoCs
INTEL IS REALLY hot on the MID/mobile internet/CE/Embedded market even if the rest of the world really isn't.
To enable this market, the firm has come out with the EP80579 and the EP 80579 with QuickAssist, eight new chip variants in all.
The goal with these System on a Chip (SoC) devices is to save board space and system complexity through integration. To get there, they took a Dothan core, more or less, and pulled the north and south bridge into the same piece of silicon. That gave them the EP80579. Add in a security unit capable of all the latest buzzwords, and you have the EP80579 with QuickAssist (EP80579QA).
The gory details, with QuickAssist
Intel is claiming a 45 per cent smaller footprint with 34 per cent less power used. In addition to the usual items, they are claiming TDM and analogue voice capability, meaning the south bridge they pulled in is one that had a sound card. The end result goes from 600MHz to 1.2GHz, and consumes from 11 to 21W.
Since this is on the Intel embedded roadmap, it has a seven-year guaranteed life cycle, so build your widgets with confidence that you will have chip supplies for 6.75 years longer than you have sales. Fashion dictates that hyperactive teens won't care about last month's gadget because it has rounded, not squared, corners, and the shade of fuchsia is off. The 80579 family also comes in industrial temp ratings, so it may not just be for the hyperactive teen set.
There are eight variants in total at three clocks, 600MHz, 1066MHz and 1.2GHz. The EP80579 consumes 11.5W, 18W and 19W at the respective frequencies, and there is an industrial temp version (-40c to 85c) of the 600MHz variant as well. The -QA model uses 13W, 20W and 21W at the same speeds, and the industrial temp variant is at 1066MHz this time.
All have 256K of L2 cache, and use DDR2 memory from 400-800MHz, but the 600MHz chips can't use DDR2-800. All chips have three GbE MACs with eight PCIe lanes, two USB2 ports, three HSS ports (for telecom uses) and two SATA-2 ports. They also have the usual southbridge interfaces, UARTs, CAN 2.0, SMBus and even SPI should you want to boot the chip someday.
Related to the 80579 announcements, Intel gave a little teaser about the current lineups of SoCs not related to the industrial roadmaps. The consumer electronics line contains Canmore and it's successor Sodaville. For Mids, we have Lincroft, and eventually Moorestown on the horizon.
Intel seems to be taking this 'x86 everywhere' concept literally, no hyperactive teen should be without three on them at all times. The 80579 line brings that one step closer to reality. ยต
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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.
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.
i work at intel and i've never heard of these things......mushrooms all of us!!
what means this? .."and there is an industrial temp version (-40c to 85c) of the 600MHz variant as well."...
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.