Details on Intel’s next 14nm Atom generation published

Details about Intel’s new platform for Atom systems have been posted on an Asian website. The Apollo Lake platform is equipped with Goldmont cores produced at 14nm, which are combined into a soc with a solid GPU.

On the site Benchlife.info there is only one slide with the block box of the Apollo Lake-I-soc. It shows that the soc is made up of four Goldmont cores: these are x86 cores that are produced at 14nm and have 1MB L2 cache per duo.

The Goldmont cores, as with Skylake processors, can communicate via a ddr3 or ddr4 controller with economical memory. The graphics calculations are taken care of by no less than eighteen execution units of the ninth generation of Intel’s processor graphics.

The soc also includes USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports, four PCIe lanes and two SATA controllers. The two HDMI controllers can handle the HDMI 1.4b standard and there is also an EDP controller for a third screen. Although HDMI 2.0 support is missing, the tablet socs must still support 4k screens.

With the Goldmont generation, the Atom processors are once again getting a new architecture. The previous Airmont-Atoms were the 14nm that shrink from the 22nm Silvermont cores. The Goldmont-Atoms should hit the market in May 2016 and should then succeed the Bay Trail I generation socs.