Intel Quietly Rolls Out New Braswell SoCs and Broadwell CPUs

[[Coi] Mr.CLuBBeR]

Chips ahoy!

The busy bodies at Intel released over half a dozen new Braswell SoCs and Broadwell CPUs ranging in price from $107 to $281, presumably in trays of 1,000 units (meaning retail prices will be a bit higher). Starting with Intel's Braswell lineup, the new parts are based on a 14nm manufacturing process and sport new CPU and GPU architectures that offer higher performance at the same or lower TDPs than Intel's previous generation SoCs.
Braswell CPUs consist of the following: one or two CPU modules, GPU, DDR3 memory controller, chipset, and I/O interfaces. Two "Airmont" CPU cores make up each CPU module, which have 1MB of shared L2 cache, SIMD instructions up to SSE4, and support for Intel 64, virtualization, and Burst Performance technologies.
Here's a look at the new Braswell CPUs, according to CPU-World:

• Celeron N3000: Dual-core, 1.04GHz to 2.08GHz, 1MB L2 cache, DDR3-1600 memory, 4W TDP, $107
• Celeron N3050: Dual-core, 1.6GHz to 2.16GHz, 1MB L2 cache, DDR3-1600 memory, 6W TDP, $107
• Celeron N3150: Quad-core, 1.6GHz to 2.08GHz, 2MB L2 cache, DDR3-1600 memory, 6W TDP, $107
• Pentium N3700: Quad-core, 1.6GHz to 2.4GHz, 2MB L2 cache, DDR3-1600 memory, 6W TDP, $161

Essentially these are replacements for Intel's Bay Trail-M and Bay Trail-D SoCs on desktop and mobile.
Moving on, Intel also launched a trio of new Broadwell CPUs, all three of which are mobile parts with support for Hyper Threading. Here's a look:

• Pentium 3825U: Dual-core (four threads), 1.9GHz, 2MB L3 cache, HD (Broadwell), 15W TDP, $161
• Core i3 5015U: Dual-core (four threads), 2.1GHz, 3MB L3 cache, HD 5500, 15W TDP, $275
• Core i3 5020U: Dual-core (four threads), 2.2GHz, 3MB L3 cache, HD 5500, 15W TDP, $281

Compared to their predecessors, the new chips are 100MHz faster at the same price points, have faster graphics, and add Hyper Threading support.
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