Intel Braswell chip for low cost computers.

This is also going to be a remarkable strategy by Intel in low cost low end devices.Waiting for the Tablets to be based on Intel Braswell chipset.It will be based on 14nm Atom CPU with iris visual technology on the graphics side.

Source :

Intel Braswell Chip Will Land in Low-Cost PCs, Chromebooks

Among the various news items emanating from the Intel Developer Forum in Shenzhen, China this week comes the company's latest system-on-a-chip (SoC) being developed for entry-level computing devices. Dubbed Braswell, it will replace Bay Trail, though that platform still has life in it (more below on that).

While Bay Trail is built on the 22nm manufacturing process, Braswell, like its more powerful Broadwell sibling, will have a 14nm architecture. As is usually the case with such shrinkage, you can expect better power efficiency and a performance boost from Braswell, which will power budget desktops and laptops. It will also make use of the company's improved Iris graphics technology.

The latter category will include Chromebooks, a growing segment of the notebook market running Google's Chrome OS and usually priced under $400. Intel claims it will boost the number of Chromebook designs using its chips to 20 in 2014, up from just four in 2013. It's unclear, however, if those new designs will feature Braswell, as the company did not close an official timeline for the new platform's release.

If the new Chromebooks rely on Bay Trail, then they might pack an updated version of those chips, which Intel promises will have a steep reduction in the number of components required to produce them. That will lead to cheaper quad-core 64-bit Bay Trail processors that will be ready to ship in Android and Windows-based devices as soon as this summer. Some of these tablets might cost as little as $99, a goal Intel has long touted but yet to deliver on.

Source: Intel's Braswell chip to replace Bay Trail for cheap PCs, Chromebooks | ZDNet

Day by day I am adoring Intel for its steady steps towards the future.Particularly if Quad core based Tablets arrive with $99 price tag or below it!!!. :-D

AMD has the biggest failure of neglecting the Indian market. :cry:

Does this means Intel is trying to capture the market of mediatek?
But still a very bold and appreciated move by Intel.

^^Apparently yes,until and unless Mediatek,Allwinner,Rockchip,etc.chipsets (all based on ARM arch.) doesn't reduce their prices.

Well than a better battery life is highly expected.

$hadow said:
Well than a better battery life is highly expected.

Expected,battery life will be much better.
Since,Intel Braswell will be based upon 14nm technology.

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They want to capture some tablet market,probably by even making some initial losses on those. Behind in tablets, Intel pays firms to use its chips - CNET

Intel can afford to make subsidies or take some losses in that segment initially to get going as they have much more income coming out from other areas and are a much bigger company capital wise.Also they have their own fab.AMD on the other hand is not in a comfortable position financially as intel is,plus they have to depend upon others for fab.
Bay-trail has had some decent design wins.AMD Hondo,temash had very few design wins,also most of them are overpriced.AMD had nothing which could compete with bay trail parts in similar power envelope.Hopefully AMD beema would do better.

vkl said:
They want to capture some tablet market,probably by even making some initial losses on those. Behind in tablets, Intel pays firms to use its chips - CNET

Intel can afford to make subsidies or take some losses in that segment initially to get going as they have much more income coming out from other areas and are a much bigger company capital wise.Also they have their own fab.AMD on the other hand is not in a comfortable position financially as intel is,plus they have to depend upon others for fab.
Bay-trail has had some decent design wins.AMD Hondo,temash had very few design wins,also most of them are overpriced.AMD had nothing which could compete with bay trail parts in similar power envelope.Hopefully AMD beema would do better.

But when?????

Will it be ever available in India????

That is the question.

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That depends on OEMs plus design wins.If there are some decent mainstream tablets/convertibles with a beema/mullins part,there is not much reason why they won't come to india,may be a bit late.But that is speculating too far.Let those parts get released and reviewed first.Whether they are worthy or they win some good designs is another question.It's too early to speculate what AMD will have or how seriously and in what shape do they want to enter mobile/tablet market.

Xolo has an AMD a4 1200(temash) powered tablet(Xolo Win) which should get launched soon here for around 20k or so.The chip though is no match for upper end bay-trail parts.Dell venue 8 pro which is available at 25k can trounce it perf-wise,GPU capabilities would be similar though.Win has a larger screen size and would cost lower likely.

India still being a money conscious market the chip maker is requires to produce the goods plus a good and affordable price for the local makers.
I would personally love to see these cpu in sub 10 k category.

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At the Intel Developer Forum in Shenzhen, Intel detailed a significant revision to its Bay Trail platform targeted at low-cost tablets in the China technology ecosystem. This platform is known as Bay Trail-Entry:
This is a performance- and cost-reduced implementation of the original Bay Trail-v0 that has shown up in numerous Windows 8.1 tablets. The maximum display resolution supported is lower (due to lower memory bandwidth), there is no support for LPDDR3, and the platform is Android-only. However, in exchange, the platform bill of materials is reduced significantly -- the number of components goes from 700 in Bay-Trail-v0 to 483 in Bay Trail-Entry, for instance -- making it more suitable for low-cost tablets without such a heavy contra-revenue offset.

Source: Intel Corporation: Are Tablets on the Way? (INTC, QCOM)
Some more here: *lazure2.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/i...tive-windows-tablet-price-points-from-99-129/

No, this means Chromebooks will continue to rise

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Intel Silvermont based Bay-trail processors had got fairly decent number of design wins with windows 8.1 tablets
Now they have got some newer/updated windows 8.1 models plus they have got some design wins for android with silvermont based moorefield and merrifield SoCs.

Asus goes all-in with Intel-powered tablets and phones - CNET
At Computex, Intel's 'Moorefield' and 'Broadwell' chips span Android and Windows - CNET
Dell announces upgraded Venue 7 and Venue 8 tablets
Toshiba Excite Go is a 7 inch Android tablet for $110 - Liliputing