In addition to the 45W 16-core Xeon D-1517 chips which has a 45W TDP, Intel has also expanded its line of Intel Atom x5 CPUs with a new low-power, quad-core, chip, the Atom X5-E8000, as well as two Atom X5-Z8000 series chips.

Aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) and other embedded applications, the new Atom X5-E8000 is also based on Intel's Braswell architecture, packs four CPU cores with a base clock of 1.04GHz, and 2.0GHz Turbo frequency, has 2MB of L2 cache, comes with Intel HD graphics working at 320MHz and has a 5W TDP. It lacks Hyper Threading support but comes with support for up to 8GB of DDR3L-1600 dual-channel memory, supports up to three display outputs and up to four PCI-Express lanes.

In addition to the Atom X5-E8000, Intel also unveiled two Atom X5-Z8000 series chips, the Atom X5-Z8330 and the X5-Z8350. Both chips have four cores and lack Hyper Threading, have the same 1.44GHz base and 1.92GHz Turbo clocks, 2MB of L2 cache, Intel HD 400 Graphics clocked at 200MHz base and 500MHz Turbo clocks. It is still not clear on how do these two are different but the best guess is that they have different TDP ratings which are still unknown.

The Atom X5-E8000 has a tray price of US $39, which makes it cheaper than most Celeron and Pentium parts in the Braswell lineup and quite interesting for some embedded markets so we are quite sure that this one will find its way in plenty of such systems.




Source: CPU-World.com.