Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for some reason

Posted by dmitrygr on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:14PM
from the pcgamer.com dept.

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-is-bringing-back-a-22nm-haswell-era-pentium-cpu-for-some-reason/

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Re:Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for... by jdjdjjsjs on Saturday December 07, 2019 @12:27AM (#21728674)

Our company doesn't have laptops to give out to employees. Intel has really dropped the ball. I suspect, as the article suggests, that Intel will be using these chips to supply niche applications like kiosks giving them a little more breathing room to supply current ven chips to desktops and laptops.

We're changing providers. Hopefully we will move to a company that is more AMD friendly than our current supplier.

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Re:Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for... by Koshkin on Saturday December 07, 2019 @01:51AM (#21728899)

Pentium is a good CPU. And 2 x 3.2 GHz is nothing to sneeze at.

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Re:Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for... by Lammy on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:46PM (#21728331)

> it's a dual-core CPU without Hyper Threading support

Hedging their bets against more vulnerabilities?

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Re:Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for... by lonelappde on Saturday December 07, 2019 @12:21AM (#21728649)

More like desperate to fill demand for chips for unsavvy customer who don't know amd exists yet, so pulling whatever old wagers they had in the garage. 2core 3.2GHz is fine for mass market PCs.

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Re:Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for... by jacob019 on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:43PM (#21728318)

Nothing but bad news about Intel lately.

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Re:Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for... by ulfw on Friday December 06, 2019 @11:30PM (#21728485)

As they deserve. What was the last invention that came out of that huge juggernaut?

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Re:Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for... by jacob019 on Sunday December 08, 2019 @04:54PM (#21738641)

Meanwhile Huawei innovates like crazy https://e.huawei.com/en/products/servers/kunpeng/kunpeng-des...

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Re:Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for... by chews on Saturday December 07, 2019 @03:31AM (#21729175)

Optane?

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