Intel EOLs Atom Chip Used for Microsoft HoloLens

Re:Intel EOLs Atom Chip Used for Microsoft HoloLens by Const-me on Thursday August 10, 2017 @09:16PM (#14985886)

Technically, Intel continues to sell similar products. For example, i5-7Y54 consumes same 4W of power, the CPU is about 2 times faster, GPU is about 3-4 times faster.

The main downside is the price. These atoms were sold for $20-40, the newer ones for $280. Not sure whether that’s a huge problem for MS Hololens, but everything cheaper than that gonna switch to ARM for sure.

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Re:Intel EOLs Atom Chip Used for Microsoft HoloLens by ahmeni on Thursday August 10, 2017 @09:53PM (#14986046)

For a moment I thought this kind of massive price increase on a core component would matter for HoloLens and then I remembered the dumb thing costs $3,000 USD anyways.

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Re:Intel EOLs Atom Chip Used for Microsoft HoloLens by rbanffy on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:56AM (#14990259)

The x7-Z8700 and x7-Z8750 have RCPs at $37, can address 4x more memory, have twice as many cores and consume 2W.

If Intel made a 16-core version running on 8W, I'd want a laptop using it.

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Re:Intel EOLs Atom Chip Used for Microsoft HoloLens by Const-me on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:46PM (#14994077)

> can address 4x more memory

x7-Z8700 8GB, i5-7Y54 16GB.

> have twice as many cores

Yeah, but each core of that i5 is significantly faster.

> and consume 2W

Intel invented a new metric, SDP, for these atoms. 2W is SDP < TDP. Cpubenchmark.net says typical TDP of x7-Z8700 is 4W.

For i5-7Y54 it’s 4.5W but can be configured to 3.5W @ 600 MHz.

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