4 ms·

Intel is bringing back a 22nm Haswell-era Pentium CPU for some reason

• Lammy 7y ago
  > it's a dual-core CPU without Hyper Threading support Hedging their bets against more vulnerabilities?
  • Proven 7y ago
    If I were a defense customer I'd just ask for good-enough but more secure processor model. Not a big deal.
  • lonelappde 7y ago
    More like desperate to fill demand for chips for unsavvy customer who don't know amd exists yet, so pulling whatever old wagers they had in the garage. 2core 3.2GHz is fine for mass market PCs.
• jdjdjjsjs 7y ago
  Our company doesn't have laptops to give out to employees. Intel has really dropped the ball. I suspect, as the article suggests, that Intel will be using these chips to supply niche applications like kiosks giving them a little more breathing room to supply current ven chips to desktops and laptops. We're changing providers. Hopefully we will move to a company that is more AMD friendly than our current supplier.
• jacob019 7y ago
  Nothing but bad news about Intel lately.
  • ulfw 7y ago
    As they deserve. What was the last invention that came out of that huge juggernaut?
    • pg_is_a_butt 7y ago
      They developed a way to take the AMD64 architecture and sell it with an "Intel Inside" sticker on the box. Genius.
    • chews 7y ago
      Optane?
    • jacob019 7y ago
      Meanwhile Huawei innovates like crazy https://e.huawei.com/en/products/servers/kunpeng/kunpeng-desktop-board https://e.huawei.com/en/products/servers/kunpeng/kunpeng-des...
• Koshkin 7y ago
  Pentium is a good CPU. And 2 x 3.2 GHz is nothing to sneeze at.