Two weeks ago we heard about the plans for the development of Intel's application processors line Quark. This low energy consumption solutions for the x86 platform for wearable and embedded electronics, including things with Internet connection. Previously known that in 2015 the company released the Quark generation Liffy Island, in 2016 - generation Seal Beach.
Processors Liffy Island retain one core Quark X1000 without the support of technology Hyper-Threading. Core clock frequency will be raised from the current 433 MHz to 533 MHz without increasing the thermal package, which will remain at 2 W TDP and in some cases will be held at the level of 1.5 W or less. It will also increase the amount of cache memory of the first level with 16 KB in Quark X1000 up to 64 KB in Quark Liffy Island, as well as increased capacity of SRAM with 512 Kbytes to 1 Mbyte.
Improvements will help boost productivity solutions from the current 1,25 DMIP (Dhrystone MIPS) / MHz to 1,5 DMIP / MHz.
The memory controller Quark Liffy Island promises to support DDR3L-1066 modules and DDR3-1066 capacity of up to 2 GB, including support modules with ECC. Separately improvements will affect the supported interfaces, the number of which will include an 8-channel ADC, network CAN, I2S with audio, built-in Gigabit Ethernet (10/100 was Mbit / s) and a number of other interfaces.
Processors Intel Quark sample 2016 - Seal Beach - for the first time in this class will have integrated graphics. In their structure will continue to be one single-threaded core with 533 MHz. At the same time, productivity is expected to grow to 1,5 DMIP / MHz to 2 DMIP / MHz, with the existing 2-watt thermal package. This will be achieved both by reducing the volume of on-board SRAM 1 MB to 512 KB, and due to the start of instruction support SSE2. Built in Seal Beach GPU will support
MIDI DSI interfaces and LVDS and decode video MPEG2. Expressing support for OS Microsoft Windows. Both of the new generation Quark will be empowered to work with the hardware security protocol processing and data transfer.
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