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Intel Atom becomes a System-on-Chip.
The Intel Atom is going to be appearing in more places than just the countless number of nettops and netbooks of today (and tomorrow).
Intel at IDF announced the Atom CE4100 processor, which was formerly codenamed Sodaville. The CE4100 is a System-on-Chip processor that integrates not only the Atom core, but also a display processor, graphics processor, video display controller, transport processor, a dedicated security processor and general I/O including SATA-300 and USB 2.0.
Such a package is designed to be the core to digital TVs, DVD players and advanced set-top boxes – particularly as more consumer devices become net-connected for streaming content and other media.
"Traditional broadcast networks are quickly shifting from a linear model to a multi-stream, Internet-optimized model to offer consumers digital entertainment that complements the TV such as social networking, 3-D gaming and streaming video," said Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager, Intel Digital Home Group. "At the center of the TV evolution is the CE4100 media processor, a new architecture that meets the critical requirements for connected CE devices."
The CE4100 will run up to 1.2 GHz in order to stay power friendly for set-top devices. It is backward compatible with the outgoing Pentium-based CE3100 and supports hardware decode of up to two 1080p video streams and 3-D graphics and audio standards. New over the CE3100 is decoding hardware for MPEG4 video that is ready for DivX Home Theater 3.0 certification, an integrated NAND flash controller, support for both DDR2 and DDR3 memory and 512K L2 cache.
Earlier this week, Intel revealed that the Atom processor would also find a home into BMW and Mercedes-Benz vehicles for the 2012 model year.
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For our tests, we used a Mini-ITX motherboard made by Gigabyte, equipped with an Atom 230/i945GC. The board has a single DIMM (DDR2) slot and a PCI port – which rules out using any modern graphics cards. Amusingly, the chipset (which, remember, consumes 22 W) is actively cooled, whereas the processor makes do with a simple aluminum heat sink. Shootout Since this motherboard is intended for entry-level machines, we tried to compare two current entry-level solutions – a Pentium E2160 (1.8 GHz factory), an entry-level dual-core processor based on the Core architecture, and a Sempron 3400+ (Socket 754 in this case). The two processors were set to the same clock frequency as the Atom (1.6 GHz) for the tests. The motherboard used for the Pentium E was a GA-GM945-S2. It has the advantage of using the same chipset (or almost) as the Atom motherboard – an i945G. The motherboard used with the Sempron is Nforce4-based. The three boards were tested with the same system – Windows XP Service Pack 2 with all the drivers up to date. We used DDR2-667 memory (1 GB) on the Intel platforms and a 1 GB DDR-400 DIMM on the Sempron. Finally, our test hard disk was a 74 GB Western Digital Raptor. The Tests We decided to compare the three platforms at an identical frequency, with a few practical tests and a few synthetic ones. On Cinebench R10, the Sempron placed between the Atom and the Pentium E, though the Atom-with-HyperThreading combo proved effective (1.53 times faster with HyperThreading). Notice that the increase with the Pentium E, which actually has two cores, is not that much greater: 1.86 times faster. With Sandra, which is a synthetic test, the difference among the three processors was impressive. The Pentium E really was faster. Note that the difference between the Atom and the Sempron may seem slight, but the tests are multithreaded and the Sempron has only one core, whereas the Pentium E has two and the Atom uses HyperThreading, which can produce significant gains. In the 3DMark 06 and PCMark 06 CPU tests, the Pentium E had a comfortable lead, and the Sempron always placed between the Atom and the Pentium E. In this test – a favorite with overclockers, but fundamentally not really conclusive (the code is dated and not very optimized) –, the Atom was a lot slower than its competitors. Finally, we ran a test that consists of compressing approximately one GB of files with WinRAR. Since the Sempron uses a different memory subsystem (DDR) and a real graphics card, it doesn’t show up on this test – the comparison would have been thrown off. In practice, the difference between the two platforms was less than in the synthetic tests, but the Pentium E was still approximately twice as fast.
1.2ghz? Low power for set-top devices?? I can understand battery operated devices needing low power soc but a set top? Poor excuse for another slow ass Atom.
I'll get -20 for this but I guess it can't possibly run Crysis.
Lol.
You retards are missing the point of all this. It isn't mean to be a desktop, or even notebook grade processor. It's for netbooks and for t.v. tuners and stuff. There isn't much processing need behind those devices and the processing power you DO need Intel is setting themselves up to be the chip of choice. Why would you need a desktop-grade processor for a DVR? You don't.
1.2ghz? Low power for set-top devices?? I can understand battery operated devices needing low power soc but a set top? Poor excuse for another slow ass Atom.
You do realize most set-top DVRs use 80-300MHz CPUs with 400MHz DDR RAM right? This Chip is a huge jump for those types of devices, need to remember electronics that do just one thing don't need components as fast as general electronics do, they can do more with less since it can be programmed to do that one thing efficiently.
Great! Now my netbook will truly have the same processing speed as a portable DVD player.
I smell a very good DVR/HTPC type thing coming soon.
I smell a very good DVR/HTPC type thing coming soon.
really, because last time I checked intel couldnt output 1080p, so either they updated something or they will suck
It would have to be pretty low power consumption and price. The box I am using now is using 25W when recording 2 video streams and playing a prerecorded stream. I don't know what the power consumption is when idle is, but I know that both tuners and the hard disk shut down.
Price in the set-top box market is probably going to be the main issue. The cable companies probably buy boxes in the 100,000 at a time type rate. If Intel is trying to sell a $35 chip vs Broadcom selling a $15 chip that would mean a lot more $$. Even $1/per box is quite a bit in those quantities.
Would probably make a sweet processor if the video can manage 1080p.
really, because last time I checked intel couldnt output 1080p, so either they updated something or they will suck
Correct, but there was a few reports they were working on that.
Streaming video usually uses flash, such as HULU. Flash video in HD quality needs more cpu muscle then the current atom 330 can provide. Unless they made the actual cpu part significantly faster it will not be good enough for a "do all" HTPC.
P.S. so far flash video can't be done in hardware acceleration.
"New over the CE3100 is decoding hardware for MPEG4 video that is ready for DivX Home Theater 3.0 certification, an integrated NAND flash controller, support for both DDR2 and DDR3 memory and 512K L2 cache."
I think that would be how they are less likely to suck...
They really are pushing their crap to anywhere. First they overwhelmed PCs, Supercomputers, then netbooks, then cars, now home electronics. WHAT next... all living things with Intels CPUs(Crap Processing Unit to control our poo production). Maan do I just dislike tyrannical, ruthless and monopolistic, too big for one world, companies.
And the worst of all is that this is going to happen. As Intel uses their questionable competition techniques the manufactures don't stand a chance.
This article failed to mention how low the power consumption is. But I found the information from another website:
It was built on the low capability Atom processor core, making it the ideal “brain” for set top boxes including cable boxes and Blu-ray players, although it shouldn’t see any action in notebooks. Capable of running at clock speeds up to 1.2GHz while featuring FSB speeds of 200MHz to 400MHz while
supporting playback of 2 simultaneous 1080p video streams, the Intel CE4100 is truly a capable piece of silicon wizardry, supportting H.264 video playback, 3D graphics and streaming media in Flash 10 format. In addition, it does all that while consuming a mere 7 to 9 watts.
This article failed to mention how low the power consumption is. But I found the information from another website:
http://www.gizmos-and-gadgets.net/ [...] -processor
It was built on the low capability Atom processor core, making it the ideal “brain” for set top boxes including cable boxes and Blu-ray players, although it shouldn’t see any action in notebooks. Capable of running at clock speeds up to 1.2GHz while featuring FSB speeds of 200MHz to 400MHz while
supporting playback of 2 simultaneous 1080p video streams, the Intel CE4100 is truly a capable piece of silicon wizardry, supportting H.264 video playback, 3D graphics and streaming media in Flash 10 format. In addition, it does all that while consuming a mere 7 to 9 watts.