14 DAY TRIAL // Not long ago, reports started showing up about how likely it was that Intel would scrap the Atom brand, selling the low-end CPUs under Celeron and Pentium brands instead. Here is a counter-argument.
Regardless of brand monikers, Intel's Bay Trail-T central processing unit series will come out, as Intel has been planning for years.
Until told otherwise, we will assume that the Atom brand will survive the year, as it is this brand that Bay Trail-T units will be shipped under, according to VR-Zone.
The update to the Atom family will take place on September 11, and will be quite large, made of four chips in total.
There will be standard chips and “D” series chips, which, contrary to what the naming schemes might imply, will actually be weaker.
Don't get the wrong idea though. The “D” chips and non-“D” chips will have the same core clocks and overall specs.
What will be different is the capability of the integrated graphics processor (iGP). On “D” chips, the top resolution will be of 1920 x 1080 pixels, full HD as it were.
Normally, we'd say that is a more than decent specification for low-end processors, but then we'd remember that, for some obscure reason, screen resolutions have been advancing faster on the tablet market than on the notebook and monitor front.
That brings us to the non-“D” chips, and their ability to produce resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600 pixels.
These are the exact names of the Atom CPUs: Z3770, Z3770D, Z3740 and Z3740D. The Z3740D and Z3770D have 10.6 GBs memory bandwidth (up to 2 GB DDR3L-RS 1333), while the others have 1067 MHz, but with dual-channel support.
As for the clock speeds, the Z3740 and Z3740D will run at 1.8 GHz, and the Z3770 and Z3770D will make it all the way to 2.4GHz.