Intel had already announced their plan to change Intel Atom branding to use x3/x5/x7 nomenclature in order to make it easier for consumers to navigate their product offerings, but the company has now provided much more details during their press conference at Mobile World Congress 2015.
- Intel Atom x3-C3130 – Dual-core processor up to 1.0 GHz with ARM Mali-400MP2 GPU and 2G/3G modem.
- Intel Atom x3-C3230RK – Quad-core processor up to 1.2GHz with ARM Mali-450MP4 GPU, and 2G/3G modem. Designed/Manufactured by Rockchip.
- Intel Atom x3-C3440 – Quad-core processor up to 1.4GHz with ARM Mali-T720 GPU, and a 5-mode LTE modem
Atom x3 3G SoCs can be coupled with A-Gold 620 chipsets combining 2G/3G RF, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, FM radio, GPS/GLONASS and Audio/PMU, while Atom x3 LTE SoC would interface with four chips for 4G RF (Smarti RF TRX), PMIC + Audio, 802.11ac/BT 4.1 (Intel Wireless-AC WCS8270), and GPS (Intel Wireless-GNSS WCS 2100 & WCS 2000). All three processors are manufactured with a 28nm process, again to keep costs low.
Atom x5 and x7 will however be 14-nm processor, bringing lower power consumption, but a least initially, a higher cost. These processors will feature Intel Gen8 graphics, and support next-gen LTE Cat-6 thanks to Intel XMM-726x modem, and be found in 7″ to 10″ Windows and Android tablets and 2-in-1 hybrid laptops priced between $120 to $500.
Furthermore, Techreport mentioned two Atom x5 processors will be available first with x5-8300 @ 1.84 GHz (up to 1080p) and Atom x5-8500 @ 2.24 GHz (up to 4K2K), as well as one Atom x7 processors: x7-8700 running at 2.4 GHz, as well as specifications:
- CPU
- x5-8300 – Quad core 64-bit Atom x5 up to 1.84 GHz
- x5-8500 – Quad core 64-bit Atom x5 up to 2.24 GHz
- x7-8700 – Quad core 64-bit Atom x7 up to 2.40 GHz
- Graphics
- Atom x5 – Gen8 12 EU, up to 500/600 MHz supporting DX11.1, OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, RS Compute
- Atom x7 – Gen8 16 EU, up to 600 MHz supporting DX11.1, OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL 4.3, RS Compute
- Media (encode/decode) – HEVC (decode), H.264, VP8
- Memory
- x5-8300 – 1×32, 1×64 DDR3L-RS 1600, 1-2GB
- x5-8500 / x7-8700 – 2×64 LPDDR3 1600, 2-8GB
- Storage – eMMC 4.51
- Display resolution
- x5-8300
- Internal – 1920×1200 (MIPI-DSI or LVDS)
- External: 1920×1080 (HDMI)
- x5-8500 & x7-8700
- Internal – 2500 x 1600 (MIPI-DSI or eDP)
- External: 4K2K @ 30 Hz (HDMI)
- x5-8300
- Modem – Intel XMM 7260/62 LTE Cat-6 (up to 300Mbps DL). M.2 only for x5-8300
- Connectivity – Intel WLAN, Intel WWAN, Intel NFC; Atom x7 also adds Intel WiGig.
- I/O
- x5-8300 – 6xI2C, 2xHSUART, 1xSDIO, 3xI2S, SPI, PCIe 2.0 x1, 1xI2C(ISH), 1xI2C (NFC)
- x5-8500 & x7-8700 – 7xI2C, 2xHSUART, 1xSDIO, 3xI2S, 1xLPC, 1xSPI, PCIe 2.0 x2, 1x I2C(ISH), 1xI2C (NFC)
- USB – 1xUSB3 OTG, 2xHSIC, 3xUSB2. x5-8500 & x7- only: 2x SSIC
- ISP/camera (Rear & front)
- x5-8300 – Up to 8MP with Intel RealSense Snapshot
- x5-8500 & x7-8700 – Up to 13MP with Intel RealSense 3D camera
I could not find any TDP figures, but thermal dissipation should be around 2 to 5W since Atom x3, x5 and x7 target tablets and smartphones.
Via Anandtech
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
Does all Atom x3 SoCs support HEVC HW decode?
ARM Mali GPUs? How well are those GPUs supported under Linux?
So Intel change GPU from SGX to ARM MALI?
one driver blob to another driver blob ?
so cool Intel 🙂
We need, as a community, to run a Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign to raise funds to hire designers and engineers to work on a x5/x7 open source single board computer like raspberry pi or odroids to name few obvious leaders.
Who’s in with me?!
Hope you pick the Atom x3-C3440 cause anything lower is epic fail