Quote Originally Posted by flyck View Post
let me rephrase.llano/SB ULV which will be alot faster than Zacate while boasting a similar max tdp. So all zacate has is a lower price and better battery time in low load situations. (although the difference will not be that significant). If they can sell for each low end notebook a low priced low cost Zacate or a llano (higher cost) but huge profits (same range as ULV intels) they would be crazy to keep Zacate in that sector and loose llano sails (with higher profits). 18W on netbook is rather high, it is ontario that is mainly focussed on netbook and zacate on low power notebook to fill their current gap. Although i would expect that if llano is introduced for the low end they will start lowering the pwr requirements of zacate to scale them down to the upper end of netbook or really low power notebooks. (they just have to keep sure intel does not have lower cost chips for possible ulv notebook market
Current i5/7 series and next gen Q2 SB will have indeed a cpu power advantage... thx to the turbo and HT. But the whole range is always compared as if it is faster, don't forget how much downclock is required to get this as a culv. But perhaps look at the price point, for i5-i7 cpu you will almost buy a whole ontario netbook

The full list of culv chips listed on anandtech
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3737/i...d-reduces-size

that celeron-pentium and even i3 will have a very hard time against zacate, only i3 could have some multithread benefit, gpu wise they are all less even i5/7. It is already known that Intel will bring a special SB version (single core/ HT?) to counter this level.