Intel has spilled the beans on its latest Atom processor: the C3000 is the company’s third generation system-on-a-chip based CPU manufactured on their optimized 14nm process technology. Unlike their older brethren, these Atoms will primarily live in network and enterprise storage products instead of home devices (e.g., Ultrabooks and tablets). Intel is claiming a 4x storage performance improvement, up to 3.4x network performance improvement, and up to 2.3x compute performance improvement.



Available in a range of configurations from 2 core to 16 core and up to 256 GB DDR4 2400 MHz ECC (SODIMM, UDIMM, or RDIMM) of addressable memory, this system-on-a-chip (SoC) has an integrated platform controller hub (PCH), integrated I/O, up to four integrated 10 Gigabit Intel® Ethernet adapters, and a thermal design point (TDP) of 8.5 watts to 32 watts. It can run the same software and instruction sets as Intel® Xeon® processors to provide software consistency and deployability from the data center to the network edge. It also provides advanced server-class capabilities.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Intel Atom C3000 Product Briefing