Intel increases clock speed of three Cherry Trail sockets

Intel is renewing three of its Cherry Trail socs for tablets. The Atom x5-Z8350, x5-Z8550 and x7-Z8750 are minor updates to the variants introduced earlier this year and get slightly higher turbo boost speeds.

Intel has announced a new revision of three Atom-socs through a Product Change Notification, as discovered by the German website Golem. It concerns the new D-stepping of the Atom x7-Z8700, x5-Z8500 and x5-Z8300, which were announced in March 2015.

Intel increases the chips’ maximum turbo boost speed by approximately one hundred megahertz and fixes a known bug related to texture compression. Furthermore, only the naming is new; Intel increases the type numbers by 50 and renames the built-in GPU. The x5 models are equipped with Intel HD Graphics 400, the x7 has an HD Graphics 405 GPU.

From November 9, Intel will send samples of the socs to manufacturers. The chips will be ready for production in February. The Atom socs are mainly used in tablets. For example, Microsoft applies the current x7-Z8700 in the Surface 3.