Silvermont
Model | Atom |
---|---|
Transistors | 22 nm transistors |
Architecture | Silvermont x86 |
Instructions | MMX, AES-NI, CLMUL |
Extensions | |
Predecessor |
Bonnell Saltwell |
Successor |
Airmont (die shrink), Goldmont (new microarchitecture) |
Silvermont is a microarchitecture for low-power Atom, Celeron and Pentium branded processors used in systems on a chip (SoCs) made by Intel. Silvermont forms the basis for a total of four SoC families:[1]
- Merrifield and Moorefield – consumer SoCs intended for smartphones
- Bay Trail – consumer SoCs aimed at tablets, hybrid devices, netbooks, nettops, and embedded/automotive systems
- Avoton – SoCs for micro-servers and storage devices
- Rangeley – SoCs targeting network and communication infrastructure.
Silvermont was announced to news media on May 6, 2013 at Intel's headquarters at Santa Clara, California.[2][3] Intel had repeatedly said the first Bay Trail devices would be available during the Holiday 2013 timeframe, while leaked slides showed that the release window for Bay Trail-T as August 28 – September 13, 2013.[4] Both Avoton and Rangeley were announced as being available in the second half of 2013. The first Merrifield devices were announced in 1H14.[5]
Airmont is the 14 nm die shrink of Silvermont, launched in early 2015 and first seen in the Atom x7-Z8700 as used in the Microsoft Surface 3.[6] Airmont microarchitecture includes the following SoC families:[7]
- Braswell – consumer SoCs aimed at PCs
- Cherry Trail – consumer SoCs aimed at tablets.
Silvermont based cores have also been used, modified, in the Knight's Landing iteration of Intel's Xeon Phi HPC chips.
Design
Silvermont was the first Atom processor to feature an out-of-order architecture.[8]
Technology
- A 22 nm manufacturing process
- SoC (System on Chip) architecture
- 3D tri-gate transistors
- Consumer chips up to quad-core, business-class chips up to eight cores
- Supports SSE4.2 instruction set
- Gen 7 Intel HD Graphics with DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.0, and OpenCL 1.1 support. OpenGL 4.0 is supported with 10.18.10.4653 WHQL drivers[9][10] and later drivers. On Android, Silvermont graphics is OpenGL ES 3.1 certified.[11]
- 10 W thermal design power (TDP) desktop processors
- 4.5 and 7.5 W TDP mobile processors
- 20 W (TDP) Server and Communications processors
Erratum
Intel revealed in its Q4 2016 quarterly report that there were quality issues in the C2000 product family, which had an effect on the financial performance of the company's Data Center Group that quarter.[12] An erratum published by Intel state there is a defect in the chip's clock, and affected systems "may experience inability to boot or may cease operation". [13][14][15] A workaround is available. The SoC failures are thought to have led to failures in Cisco and Synology products,[16] though discussion of the C2000 as the root cause of failure has been reported to be under a non-disclosure agreement for many vendors.[17]
Intel released a new stepping of the C2000 series in April 2017 which corrected the bug.[18]
List of Silvermont processors
Desktop processors (Bay Trail-D)
List of desktop processors as follows:
Target segment |
Cores (Threads) |
Processor Branding & Model |
GPU Model | TDP | Turbo | Graphics Clock rate | L2 Cache |
Release Date |
Price (USD) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-core | Normal | Turbo | |||||||||
Value | 4 (4) | Pentium | J2900 | Intel HD Graphics (4 EU) |
10 W / 2.41 GHz | 2.67 GHz | 688 MHz | 896 MHz | 2 MB | Q4 2013 | $94 |
J2850 | N/A | 792 MHz | Q3 2013 | ||||||||
Celeron | J1900 | 10 W / 2.0 GHz | 2.42 GHz | 854 MHz | Q4 2013 | $82 | |||||
J1850 | N/A | 792 MHz | Q3 2013 | ||||||||
2 (2) | J1800 | 10 W / 2.41 GHz | 2.58 GHz | 1 MB | Q4 2013 | $72 | |||||
J1750 | N/A | 750 MHz | Q3 2013 |
Server processors (Avoton)
It has been found that a bug in the blueprint of the C2000 CPUs family may cause failure of its embedded Ethernet ports.
List of server processors as follows:[19]
Target segment |
Cores (Threads) |
Processor Branding & Model |
GPU Model | TDP | CPU Turbo | Graphics Clock rate | L2 Cache |
Release Date |
Price (USD) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-core | Normal | Turbo | |||||||||
Server | 8 (8) | Atom | C2750 | N/A | 20 W / 2.4 GHz | 2.6 GHz | N/A | N/A | 4 MB | Q3 2013 | $171 |
C2730 | 12 W / 1.7 GHz | 2.0 GHz | $150 | ||||||||
4 (4) | C2550 | 14 W / 2.4 GHz | 2.6 GHz | 2 MB | $86 | ||||||
C2530 | 9 W / 1.7 GHz | 2.0 GHz | $70 | ||||||||
2 (2) | C2350 | 6 W / 1.7 GHz | 2.0 GHz | 1 MB | $43 |
Communications processors (Rangeley)
List of upcoming communications processors as follows:[20]
Target segment |
Cores (Threads) |
Processor Branding & Model |
GPU Model | TDP | CPU Turbo | Graphics Clock rate | Intel QuickAssist |
L2 Cache |
Release Date |
Price (USD) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-core | Normal | Turbo | ||||||||||
Communications | 8 (8) | Atom | C2758 | N/A | 20 W / 2.4 GHz | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4 MB | Q3 2013 | $208 |
C2738 | No | |||||||||||
C2718 | 18 W / 2.0 GHz | Yes | $182 | |||||||||
4 (4) | C2558 | 15 W / 2.4 GHz | 2 MB | $104 | ||||||||
C2538 | No | |||||||||||
C2518 | 13 W / 1.7 GHz | Yes | $91 | |||||||||
C2508 | 9.5 W / 1.25 GHz | Q2 2014 | $98 | |||||||||
2 (2) | C2358 | 7 W / 1.7 GHz | 2.0 GHz | 1 MB | Q3 2013 | $60 | ||||||
C2338 | No | |||||||||||
C2308 | 6 W / 1.25 GHz | N/A | Yes | Q2 2014 |
Embedded/automotive processors (Bay Trail-I)
List of embedded processors as follows:[21]
Target segment |
Cores (Threads) |
Processor Branding & Model |
GPU Model | TDP | CPU Turbo | Graphics Clock rate | L2 Cache |
Release Date |
Price (USD) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-core | Normal | Turbo | |||||||||
Embedded | 4 (4) | Atom | E3845 | Intel HD Graphics (4 EU) |
10 W / 1.91 GHz | N/A | 542 MHz | 792 MHz | 2 MB | Q4 2013 | $52 |
2 (2) | E3827 | 8 W / 1.75 GHz | 1 MB | $41 | |||||||
E3826 | 7 W / 1.46 GHz | 533 MHz | 677 MHz | $37 | |||||||
E3825 | 6 W / 1.33 GHz | N/A | $34 | ||||||||
1 (1) | E3815 | 5 W / 1.46 GHz | 400 MHz | 512 KB | $31 | ||||||
2 (2) | E3805 | N/A | 3 W / 1.33 GHz | N/A | 1 MB | Q4 2014 |
Mobile processors (Bay Trail-M)
List of mobile processors as follows:
Target segment |
Cores (Threads) |
Processor branding & model |
GPU model | TDP | CPU turbo | Graphics Clock rate | L2 Cache |
Release date |
Price (USD) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normal | Turbo | ||||||||||
Value | 4 (4) | Pentium | N3540 | Intel HD Graphics (4 EU) |
7.5 W / 2.16 GHz | 2.66 GHz | 313 MHz | 896 MHz | 2 MB | 2014-07-20 | $161 |
N3530 | 2.58 GHz | 2014-02-23 | |||||||||
N3520 | 7.5 W / 2.166 GHz | 2.42 GHz | 854 MHz | 2013-11-03 | |||||||
N3510 | 7.5 W / 2.0 GHz | N/A | 750 MHz | 2013-09-11 | |||||||
Celeron | N2940 | 7.5 W / 1.83 GHz | 2.25 GHz | 854 MHz | Q3 2014 | $107 | |||||
N2930 | 2.16 GHz | 2014-02-23 | |||||||||
N2920 | 7.5 W / 1.86 GHz | 2.0 GHz | 844 MHz | 2013-11-03 | |||||||
N2910 | 7.5 W / 1.6 GHz | N/A | 756 MHz | 2013-09-11 | |||||||
2 (2) | N2840 | 7.5 W / 2.16 GHz | 2.58 GHz | 311 MHz | 792 MHz | 1 MB | Q3 2014 | ||||
N2830 | 2.41 GHz | 313 MHz | 750 MHz | 2014-02-23 | |||||||
N2820 | 7.5 W / 2.13 GHz | 2.39 GHz | 756 MHz | 2013-11-03 | |||||||
N2815 | 7.5 W / 1.86 GHz | 2.13 GHz | |||||||||
N2810 | 7.5 W / 2.0 GHz | N/A | 2013-09-11 | ||||||||
N2808 | 4.5 W / 1.58 GHz | 2.25 GHz | 311 MHz | 792 MHz | Q3 2014 | ||||||
N2807 | 4.3 W / 1.58 GHz | 2.16 GHz | 313 MHz | 750 MHz | 2014-02-23 | ||||||
N2806 | 4.5 W / 1.6 GHz | 2.0 GHz | 756 MHz | 2013-11-03 | |||||||
N2805 | 4.3 W / 1.46 GHz | N/A | 667 MHz | 2013-09-11 |
Tablet processors (Bay Trail-T)
List of tablet and hybrid processors as follows:
Target segment |
Cores (Threads) |
Processor branding & model |
SDP[22] | CPU clock rate | L2 Cache |
GPU Model | GPU Clock rate | Memory | Max Display Resolution | Socket | Release Date |
Price (USD) | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Base | Turbo | Base | Burst | Type | # Channels | Max Speed | Max Bandwidth | Max Supported | |||||||||||
Value | 4 (4) | Atom | Z3795 | 2 W | 1.66 GHz | 2.39 GHz | 2 MB | Intel HD Graphics (4 EU) | 311 MHz | 778 MHz | LPDDR3 | 2x64b | 1067MT/s | 17.1 GB/s | 4 GB | FCBGA1380 | Q1 2014 | $40.00 | |
Z3785 | 2.2 W | 1.49 GHz | 2.41 GHz | 313 MHz | 833 MHz | LPDDR3 | 2x64b | 1333MT/s | 21.3 GB/s | 4 GB | Q2 2014 | ||||||||
Z3775 | 2 W | 1.46 GHz | 2.39 GHz | 311 MHz | 778 MHz | LPDDR3 | 2x64b | 1067MT/s | 17.1 GB/s | 4 GB | Q1 2014 | $35.00 | |||||||
Z3775D | 2.2 W | 1.49 GHz | 2.41 GHz | 311 MHz | 792 MHz | DDR3L-RS | 1x64b | 1333MT/s | 10.6 GB/s | 4 GB | Q1 2014 | $35.00 | |||||||
Z3770 | 2 W | 1.46 GHz | 2.39 GHz | 311 MHz | 667 MHz | LPDDR3 | 2x64b | 1067MT/s | 17.1 GB/s | 4 GB | 2560×1600 | 11 September 2013 | $37.00 | ||||||
Z3770D | 2.2 W | 1.5 GHz | 2.41 GHz | 313 MHz | 688 MHz | DDR3L-RS | 1x64b | 1333MT/s | 10.6 GB/s | 2 GB | 1920×1280 | ||||||||
Z3740 | 2 W | 1.33 GHz | 1.86 GHz | 311 MHz | 667 MHz | LPDDR3 | 2x64b | 1067MT/s | 17.1 GB/s | 4 GB | 2560×1600 | $32.00 | |||||||
Z3740D | 2.2 W | 1.33 GHz | 1.83 GHz | 313 MHz | 688 MHz | DDR3L-RS | 1x64b | 1333MT/s | 10.6 GB/s | 2 GB | 1920×1280 | ||||||||
Z3735F | 2.2 W | 1.33 GHz | 1.83 GHz | 311 MHz | 646 MHz | DDR3L-RS | 1x64b | 1333MT/s | 10.6 GB/s | 2 GB | 1920×1200 | FCBGA592 | Q1 2014 | $17.00 | |||||
Z3735G | 2.2 W | 1.33 GHz | 1.83 GHz | 311 MHz | 646 MHz | DDR3L-RS | 1x32b | 1333MT/s | 5.3 GB/s | 1 GB | 1200×800 | ||||||||
2 (2) | Z3680 | 1.33 GHz | 2.0 GHz | 1 MB | 311 MHz | 667 MHz | LPDDR3 | 1x64b | 1067MT/s | 8.5 GB/s | 1 GB | 1280×800 | 11 September 2013 | N/A | |||||
Z3680D | 1.33 GHz | 2.0 GHz | 311 MHz | 688 MHz | DDR3L-RS | 1x64b | 1333MT/s | 10.6 GB/s | 2 GB | 1920×1280 |
Smartphone processors (Merrifield)
List of smartphone processors as follows:
Model number |
sSpec number |
Cores | Frequency | GPU frequency |
L2 cache |
I/O bus | Memory | Voltage | TDP | Socket | Release date | Part number(s) |
Release price (USD) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Atom Z3460 |
|
2 | 1.6 GHz | 400–457 MHz | 1 MB | 2 × LPDDR3-1066 | March 2014 |
|
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Atom Z3480 |
|
2 | 2.13 GHz | 457–533 MHz | 1 MB | 2 × LPDDR3-1066 | March 2014 |
|
Smartphone processors (Moorefield)
List of smartphone processors as follows:
Model number |
sSpec number |
Cores | Frequency | GPU frequency |
L2 cache |
I/O bus | Memory | Voltage | TDP | Socket | Release date | Part number(s) |
Release price (USD) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Atom Z3530 |
|
4 | 1.33 GHz | 457 MHz | 2 × 1 MB | 2 × LPDDR3-1600 | H2 2014 |
|
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Atom Z3560 |
|
4 | 1.83 GHz | 457–533 MHz | 2 × 1 MB | 2 × LPDDR3-1600 | H2 2014 |
|
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Atom Z3570 | 4 | 2.00 GHz | 457–640 MHz | 2 × 1 MB | 2 × LPDDR3-1600 | Q4 2014 | |||||||
Atom Z3580 |
|
4 | 2.33 GHz | 457–533 MHz | 2 × 1 MB | 2 × LPDDR3-1600 | H2 2014 |
|
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Atom Z3590 | 4 | 2.50 GHz | 457–640 MHz | 2 × 1 MB | 2 × LPDDR3-1600 | H2 2015 |
List of Airmont processors
Desktop processors (Braswell)
List of desktop processors as follows:
Target segment |
Cores (Threads) |
Processor Branding & Model |
GPU Model | TDP | Turbo | Graphics Clock rate | L2 Cache |
Release Date |
Price (USD) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-core | Normal | Turbo | ||||||||||
Desktop | 4 (4) | Pentium | J3710 | Intel HD Graphics 405 | (18 EU) | 6.5 W / 1.6 GHz |
2.64 GHz | 400 MHz | 740 MHz | 2 MB | January 2016 | N/A |
Celeron | J3160 | Intel HD Graphics 400 | (12 EU) | 6 W / 1.6 GHz |
2.24 GHz | 320 MHz | 700 MHz | N/A | ||||
2 (2) | J3060 | 2.48 GHz | 1 MB [note 1] |
N/A |
Mobile processors (Braswell)
List of mobile processors as follows:
Target segment |
Cores (Threads) |
Processor Branding & Model |
GPU Model | TDP | Turbo | Graphics Clock rate | L2 Cache |
Release Date |
Price (USD) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1-core | Normal | Turbo | ||||||||||
Mobile | 4 (4) | Pentium | N3710 | Intel HD Graphics 405 | (16 EU) | 6W / 1.6 GHz |
2.56 GHz | 400 MHz | 700 MHz | 2 MB | Q1 2016 | $161 |
N3700 | Intel HD Graphics (Braswell) [note 2] |
2.4 GHz | Q1 2015 | $161 | ||||||||
Celeron | N3160 | Intel HD Graphics 400 | (12 EU) | 2.24 GHz | 320 MHz | 640 MHz | Q1 2016 | $107 | ||||
N3150 | Intel HD Graphics (Braswell) [note 2] |
2.08 GHz | Q1 2015 | $107 | ||||||||
2 (2) | N3060 | Intel HD Graphics 400 | 2.48 GHz | 600 MHz | 1 MB [note 1] |
Q1 2016 | $107 | |||||
N3050 | Intel HD Graphics (Braswell) [note 2] |
2.16 GHz | Q1 2015 | $107 | ||||||||
N3010 | Intel HD Graphics 400 | 4W / 1.04 GHz | 2.24 GHz | Q1 2016 | $107 | |||||||
N3000 | Intel HD Graphics (Braswell) [note 2] |
2.08 GHz | Q1 2015 | $107 |
- 1 2 2-core variants are erroneously described as featuring 2 MB L2 cache on Intel ARK, but in fact only have 1 MB L2 cache; see Anthony Shvets (March 31, 2015). "Intel quietly launches Braswell processors". CPU World.
- 1 2 3 4 Klaus Hinum (January 26, 2016). "Intel HD Graphics (Braswell)". Notebookcheck Publishing GmbH.
Tablet processors (Cherry Trail)
List of smartphone and tablet processors as follows:
Target segment |
Cores (Threads) |
Processor Branding & Model |
SDP | CPU clock rate | L2 Cache |
GPU Model | Graphics Clock rate | Socket | Release Date |
Price (USD) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Base | Turbo 1-core | Normal | Turbo | ||||||||||
Tablet | 4 (4) | Atom x7 | Z8750 | 2W | 1.6 GHz | 2.56 GHz | 2 MB | Intel HD Graphics (16 EU) |
200 MHz | 600 MHz | FCBGA1380 | Q1 2016 | $37 |
Z8700 | 2.4 GHz | Q1 2015 | |||||||||||
Atom x5 | Z8550 | 1.44GHz | Intel HD Graphics (12 EU) |
$27 | |||||||||
Z8500 | 2.24 GHz | ||||||||||||
Z8350 | 1.92 GHz | 500 MHz | FCBGA594 | Q1 2016 | $21 | ||||||||
Z8330 | |||||||||||||
Z8300 | 1.84 GHz | Q2 2015 | $21 |
Other uses
Silvermont based processor cores have been used in Knight's Landing versions of Intel's Xeon Phi multiprocessor HPC chips, with changes for HPC including AVX-512 vector units.[23][24]
Roadmap
See also
- List of Intel CPU microarchitectures
- List of Intel Pentium microprocessors
- List of Intel Celeron microprocessors
- List of Intel Atom microprocessors
- Atom (system on chip)
References
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- ↑ "Deep inside Intel's new ARM killer: Silvermont". The Register. 2013-05-08. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ↑ "Intel Launches Low-Power, High-Performance Silvermont Microarchitecture". Newsroom.intel.com. 2013-05-06. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ↑ "Intel Bay Trial-T launches August 28 – September 13". guru3d.com. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
- ↑ "Intel reveals Merrifield processor". engadget.com. Retrieved 2013-06-04.
- ↑ Joel Hruska (March 31, 2015). "Intel quietly launches 14nm Braswell, Bay Trail’s successor". ExtremeTech.
- ↑ Michael Kan. "Intel plans new 'Braswell' chip for PCs, over 20 Chromebooks". PCWorld. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
- ↑ Anand Lal Shimpi. "Intel’s Silvermont Architecture Revealed: Getting Serious About Mobile".
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- ↑ Alcorn, Paul (31 January 2017). "CPU Failures Hurt Intel's Bottom Line". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
- ↑ Hellstrom, Jeremy (7 February 2017). "Intel's Atom C2xxx processors may just make like a banana and split". PC Perspective. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
- ↑ Calburn, Thomas (6 February 2017). "Atom C2000 chips are bricking products – and it's not just Cisco hit". The Register. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
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- ↑ Kampman, Jeff (7 February 2017). "Report: Some embedded Atom CPUs can brick their host systems". Tech Report. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
- ↑ Kennedy, Patrick (7 February 2017). "THE INTEL ATOM C2000 SERIES BUG – WHY IT IS SO QUIET". ServeTheHome. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
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- ↑ "Intel® Atom™ Processor for Server". Ark.intel.com. Retrieved 2014-04-08.
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- ↑ Sodani, Avinash, Knights Landing (KNL): 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon Phi™ Processor (PDF), Intel, p. 5
- ↑ Smith, Ryan (26 June 2014), "Intel’s "Knights Landing" Xeon Phi Coprocessor Detailed", www.anadtech.com