Can we talk about the Core M3/5/7 for a sec?

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So seeing them mentioned in the macbook "pro" thread, I looked them up. Ok they have a turbo, but 281 USD for 800 mhz? And a boost to only 1.2? You wot?

I have a concern that this will drive the prices for the intel chips sky-high (which sounds funny to me because I love these 80000 USD SPARC workstations) and soon to pay 600 dollars for 4 cores at 1.6 GHZ.

Excuse me what?

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Intel
Because, pricing logic.
And btw for laptop cpus the "price" on Intel really doesn't mean a ton

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But
But why?

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^ this

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but its clocked like a pentium 3

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Not to mention they all turbo to 2.0GHz or higher (where did the 800MHz come from? The idle clock?) at 7W, contain an iGPU, and support nearly all the same instructions that the bigger 45W mobile CPUs do.

These fuckers have VT-d, VT-x AND TSX-NI. They can do nearly all the same things that a desktop Skylake CPU can, at about 8% of the TDP. (and slower, of course)

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so yeah they are decent. Tho not that amazing. If there is 15 watt versions that go up to 2.5-3 Ghz range that could be interesting

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http://ark.intel.com/products/88199/Intel-Core-m7-6Y75-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz

Or the same 7W TDP but with 3.1GHz turbo... Yeah they already exist. At 15W they could probably pull off a true quad-core without HT at 3.0GHz.

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I like that chip
the others... meh. Definitely meant for thin notebooks more than anything.

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Are these full-core (as in laptop/desktop) chips clocked at slower speeds or are they scaled down x86 like the Atoms? Because I'd be impressed if the former were true.