14 DAY TRIAL // Intel is all about high-end central processing units at the Game Developers Conference, having spoken about Broadwell, Haswell-E and Devil's Canyon, but there's a fourth CPU it mentioned.
Called Pentium Anniversary Edition, it is a fully unlocked Haswell-based processor, albeit one with a lower price than the high-end Core-Series.
And that's pretty much everything we know about it: that it's a way for Intel to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Pentium brand. Well, the presentation slide also specifies Intel Quick Sync video and 8/9 Series chipset support.
The Santa Clara, California-based company didn't say how many cores it had, if Hyper-Threading existed, or what the base frequency was.
However, going by existing Pentium units, the chip will probably be a dual-core with four threads. Then again, even if it were strange for an enthusiast part to lack Hyper-Threading, Pentium usually don't have it, so it can go either way. HD integrated graphics should be part of the die as well.
Cache memory will have to be of at least 3 MB (that's how much the 3.2 GHz Pentium G3420 has), and the clock could be of near 4.8 GHz.
Intel intends to ship the Pentium Anniversary Edition around the middle of the year (2014).