Intel Unveils Power-Saving Silvermont Architecture

Intel has just unveiled its new advanced working out: power-saving and high-efficient microarchitecture codenamed Silvermont. According to Intel, this architecture is primarily targeting devices with low power consumption and can embrace a vast production segment, starting from smartphones and finishing with datacenters. Silvermont is ready to demonstrate a threefold increase of performance and fivefold decrease of power consumption (with preservation of erstwhile efficiency), if compared with the current generation of Intel Atom cores.

Intel Silvermont has been elaborated in compliance with the norms of 22 nm technological process with the implementation of 3-D Tri-Gate transistors. The employment of new progressive techniques promotes for enhancing the operation speed and reducing energy demand of products which use Silvermont as the basis. Multi-core architecture with the support of up to eight cores ensures higher bandwidth, lower latency and more efficient operation on alteration of precedence.

To continue, the incorporation of new instructions is able to ensure more advanced facilities for virtualization and security system monitoring. All those instructions are based on the support of existing 64-bit apps for Intel architecture. For instance, Intel Burst 2.0 technology supports one- and multi-core solutions for a more productive work with power-saving tactics in mind.

As predicted by the manufacturers, Silvermont flexibility will allow the usage of different Bay Trail platform variants in the majority of market segments, including entry-level laptops and desktop PCs of emerging form-factors. The release of Merrifield processors based on Silvermont architecture is scheduled for late 2013. As compared with processors of current generation, Merrifield items are going to present longer operational time in mobile mode.

Rangeley processors, intended for network and communication solutions, are supposed to be introduced in the second half of 2013. The release of Avoton processors, developed for micro-servers, datacenters and storage systems, will not be put on the long finger too.