Quote Originally Posted by generics_user View Post
and the cheapest atom is 200$ cheaper than i3 with a higher die size than ontario/zacate

SB CULV is way too expensive to compete with ontarion and zacate, additionally i3 culvs clock at 1.2ghz and their VGA core is clocked extremely low, low end CULV is going to be destroyed by Zacate due to die size (less than 50%); power consumption (several watts lower) and performance (VGA is at least 2-3 times faster than a CULV, CPU is 20-30% slower than a CULV at the same clock speed but clocked 25% higher than the cheapest i3

Current low end CULVs are going to get owned by Zacate and sandy bridge CULV is going to be at least 2 quarters behind zacate
Well yes to the Ontario part but no to the Zacate part, because weather you like it or not CPU's are categorized by performance and price not by die size.

Zacate is suppose to have 18W TDP and there cpu's like the Sandy Bridge based CULV and Arrandale based U3xxx/U5xxx/i3-3xxUM are bound to crop up sooner or later.

I have said this before also "i'll search my post and re post here" Intel always had an eye for the Zacate type cpu it had a direction to go 4-5 months ago but i dont know how much it has changed. Earlier on the Sandy Bridge based CULV was suppose to have a single core and HT "This depended a lot on the Sandy Bridge flexibility and final production silicon". Dont know about the GPU but if the same 12 unit GPU was used that could lead to serious show down.