Intel has launched its latest family of low-power systems-on-chips (SoC), codenamed Bay Trail, which will fuel a wave of highly powerful and energy efficient tablets, two-in-ones and other mobile devices to market for consumers and business users in the fourth quarter of this year from leading OEMs including AAVA, Acer, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo and Toshiba.
The Bay Trail family of processors is based on Intel’s low-power, high-performance micro-architecture “Silvermont”, announced in May 2013.
The Intel Atom Z3000 Processor Series (“Bay Trail-T”) is the company’s first mobile multi-core SoC and its most powerful offering1 to date for tablets and other sleek mobile designs. It delivers a fast and fluid experience and a powerful balance of performance, battery life, graphics and rich features.
The flexibility of the new micro-architecture allows for variants of the SoC to serve multiple market segments, including new Intel Pentium and Celeron processors (Bay Trail-M and -D) for entry 2-in-1s, laptops, desktops and all-in-one systems.
The family of Bay Trail SoCs provides a wide range of options for Intel’s customers by enabling one hardware configuration that supports both Windows 8* and Android*, ultimately offering people broader choice of form factors at a range of price points that meet the varied needs of consumers and business users.
“What we have delivered with our Bay Trail platform is an incredibly powerful SoC that delivers outstanding performance, long battery life, and a great experience for the way people use these devices today.
It’s an incredible leap forward,” says Hermann Eul, corporate VP and GM of Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group.
“With Bay Trail as the foundation, our OEM partners are bringing a wide variety of designs at a range of prices to delight consumers, business users and IT managers.”
To bring this level of performance to a processor aimed at mobile devices, Intel developed a new platform that solves the contemporary technology challenges people have today, including the ability to multitask, the need for prolonged battery life and enhanced graphics, and the ability to have a more productive, enjoyable mobile experience.
The Intel Atom Z3000 Processor series delivers leading performance with all-day battery life. It is Intel’s most capable, best-performing platform to-date for tablets and other sleek mobile devices.
It offers a smaller footprint and lower power usage while also enabling double the compute performance and triple the graphics performance compared to the previous-generation Intel Atom processor. The low-power SoC platform enables over 10 hours of active battery life and three weeks of standby with an always-connected mobile experience.
The Intel Atom Z3000 Processor series also includes Intel Burst Technology 2.0 with four cores, four threads and 2Mb L2 cache.
This performance allows users to multi-task, consume and create content, and enjoy a rich experience across either Android or Windows 8. People will also have a choice of form factors between tablets and 2-in-1s, with thin-and-light devices ranging from 8mm to 450g, and screen sizes ranging from 7-inches to 11,6-inches. Tablets based on this latest Intel Atom SoC will be available at prices starting as low as $199.
The Intel Atom Z3000 series also enables business-ready tablets that deliver the experiences and designs people want with the protection for the enterprise that IT requires.
With robust security features, including McAfee DeepSAFE Technology, AES hardware full disk encryption, Intel Platform Trust Technology, Intel Identity Protection Technology and Intel Data Protection Technology, the platform offers a more secure computing environment. It also supports Microsoft Windows 8 Pro Domain Join and Group Policy, and delivers full application and peripheral compatibility.
Intel will introduce 64-bit support for tablets in early 2014, delivering even greater value to IT managers. Devices built on this version of the SoC will offer enterprise-class applications and security, and with Intel Identity Protection Technology (IPT) with PKI, will not require a VPN password when used with systems optimized for IPT and PKI.
The Bay Trail M line will be available in four SKUs: Intel Pentium N3510 and Intel Celeron N2910, N2810 and N2805 processors. This series will power a number of innovative 2-in-1 devices in addition to notebooks enabled with touch capabilities, bringing them to new audiences at lower price points.
With the micro-architecture flexibility and graphics improvements across all of the Bay Trail SKUs, the Pentium N3000 Processor and Celeron N2000 Processor series also boast three times faster performance in productivity applications and up to three times improvement in graphics compared to three-year-old Intel-based value notebooks.
Designs powered by these processors can be fanless, can measure less than 11 mm thick and weigh just 1kg. Intel expects the systems to start at $199 for a clamshell device, $250 for a notebook with touch and $349 for a 2-in-1 device.
The Bay Trail D line will be available in three SKUs: Intel Pentium J2850, Intel Celeron J1850 and Intel Celeron J1750. These offerings are Intel’s smallest-ever packages for desktop processors, making them ideal for fanless and smaller form factor systems for entry level desktop computing.
The processors are also ideal for vertical uses, including intelligent digital displays, with the power savings and up to three times faster performance than similar products from Intel just three years ago. Full systems based on these SKUs are expected to start at $199.