Intel announced a new Atom processor aimed at embedded devices and in-car infotainment platforms. The “Tunnel Creek” CPU offers an onboard graphics controller, memory controller, and audio, linking to a separate I/O controller via a standard PCI Express interface, according to the company.
Category: I/O Handling
- Support for dynamic system address space, including on-demand allocation of system virtual address space and kernel page table pages, and support for very large registries.
- Support for non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA) systems and systems with large pages, including additional device driver and Win32 NUMA API’s.
- I/O and section access improvements, including prefetch-style clustering for all types of page faults and system cache read-ahead (essentially pre-loading possibly-needed data into physical memory based on the current operation).
- General performance improvements, including translation buffer optimizations and improvements to internal data structures and algorithmic performance.
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