In the past year, smartphones and tablets have achieved great development, and the links between people have become more close. This also makes more and more people believe that the PC will eventually be replaced by these two, the ARM architecture processor will win X86 with its unparalleled power and powerful performance.
However, in fact, in the 2012 PC processor, the PC processor has not stopped, and the PC processor now is now a road that reduces the volume and reduces power consumption, its research and development Changes have occurred. Recalling this year's Intel processor we can find that Ivy Bridge has no significant increase in processor frequency and performance relative to Sanady Bridge, but power consumption is reduced by nearly 20%, and the core area has also decreased.
Although this has gradually faded out the high-end processor market in recent years, the power of the performance improvement of Intel product performance is great, but in fact, the Intel's product update cycle has appeared very obvious slowdown. At the desktop and mobile device, the release time of new products has been delayed in the past 18 months, and the server and workstation platform are 30 months.
In the face of such a situation, what kind of expectation we can do for this year's PC processor market?
First, it is certain that Intel's killing Haswell processor will definitely debut in the second quarter of this year. Intel also expressed its product for the desktop and the product of the notebook market will be mainly characterized by energy saving, not the previous guess. The performance is greatly improved. It is expected that the specific release time will be before and after the Taipei computer show in June this year.
What is disappointing is that the main specification of Haswell does not have a bright spot. It does not change much compared with his seniors Ivy Bridge, except for the processor slot to be replaced with LGA1150, including three-level cache, default frequency And there will be no changes in memory frequencies. From the existing K-Series Ivy Bridge processor's memory matching capability, the K-Series processor of the new architecture may also support DDR3-2800 +. In addition, unlocking multiplier Haswell processors will still be able to support VT-X hardware virtualization technology.
In terms of specific performance, the Haswell processor can bring about 10% of the performance improvement, and in the FMA / AVX2 instruction set will be more large, and it will also achieve certain growth in the performance of core graphics cards. Supports 4K resolution, approximately about 50% compared to the current HD Graphics 4000.
In terms of mobile products, the highest-specific I7-4930mx dynamically accelerated frequency is high to 3.9GHz, which is fully capable of comparing the desktop level I7-4770K. If you match DDR3-2133 memory and retina screen, it is enough to become A super mobile device that meets anyone needs.
In addition, before the Haswell released, the Ivy Bridge platform also ushered in the new Y series, the TDP Core i7-3689Y of high-end tablet products is low to 10W, using dual-core four-thread design, 3 cache 4MB, fusion HD grahics 4000 core icon. Its 1.5GHz frequency increases to 2.6GHz with the support of Turbo Frequency Management Technology, which is fast than any ARM processor on the market.
What will I do in the face of the upcoming Haswell and Ivy Bridge y series products, what will Intel's competitors do?
According to the product road map exposed last year, the AMD should launch a product based on the core of the third-generation roller (STEAMROLLER) in 2013, but from the current situation to see how the road is only available next year. The Richland APU is still constructed in the CPU part, but the fusion graphics card will be upgraded to the HD 8000 series of GCN architecture. The total characteristics will be very similar to Trinity, use it to fight Haswell, and wealth It is understood that it knows. Therefore, it is possible to say that there may only be a Haswell big light color on the entire CPU platform of 2013.
In general, throughout 2013, if you want to have energy consumption than a more powerful processor, please wait for the arrival of Haswell, if you just want to create a powerful game equipment, and plan to be equipped with excellent independence The graphics card, then there is no more time because the current Ivy Bridge CPU has met all requests.
It is necessary to supplement that there may be two products in 2013, one is what we are well known, and the "Dragon Core" processor developed by my country.
With Microsoft Windows RT system Dongfeng, ARM processor may create brilliant in 2013, and its field may not be limited to mobile phones and tablets, and it may also be large in other fields.
The "Dragon Fin" processor from China has benefited from the CPU architecture of the MIPS instruction set, and the dragon core is more energy efficient than ARM. At present, "Dragon Core" has mastered 32nm manufacturing process to support the 8-core 3B-1500 of vector computation as an example, and its TDP is only 50W, and the TDP power consumption value is equal to Core i7-3970x with more than one-third of TDP power consumption. High FP power.
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