Okay, so the original Pentium isn't really coming back in 2008, but what is coming looks enough like the Pentium to give some of us Pentium-era CPU buffs déjà vu. I'm talking, of course, about Intel's forthcoming attempts at an embedded processor core that will compete with the likes of ARM and MIPS, a "core" that may actually be a family of cores aimed at different applications. One application is low-cost, low-power mobile devices, and it turns out that the Diamondville/Silverthorne processor that will power these devices is a lot leaner than I thought. And contrary to expectations, it also will lag Core Solo significantly in clock-for-clock performance.

he new details on Diamondville/Silverthorne are buried in the program for the 2008 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). As always, the program contains a number of tantalizing nuggets of information that will be further fleshed out in the conference presentations, some of which were dug out by David Kanter over at RWT in a recent article. But I want to zoom in on the following entry[...]

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