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Goldmont Plus µarch
General Info
Arch Type	CPU
Designer	Intel
Manufacturer	Intel
Introduction	November 7, 2017
Process	14 nm
Core Configs	2, 4
Pipeline
Type	Superscalar
OoOE	Yes
Speculative	Yes
Reg Renaming	Yes
Instructions
ISA	x86-16, x86-32, x86-64
Extensions	MOVBE, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, POPCNT, AES, PCLMUL, RDRND, SHA
Cache
L1I Cache	32 KiB/Core 8-way set associative
L1D Cache	24 KiB/Core 6-way set associative
L2 Cache	2 MiB/2 Cores 16-way set associative
Cores
Core Names	Gemini Lake
Succession
Goldmont

Goldmont Plus (GLM+) is Intel's 14 nm microarchitecture of system on chips for the ultra-low power (ULP) devices serving as a successor to Goldmont. Goldmont Plus-based processors and SoCs are part of the Atom, Pentium, and Celeron families.

Codenames

Platform	Core	Target
Gemini Lake	Gemini Lake	Entry-level PCs, Communications, Storage, Tablets

Architecture

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Key changes from Goldmont

• 4-way decode (from 3-way)
• VP9 10-bit Profile2 hardware decoding
• Integrated native HDMI 2.0 controller
• Integrated Intel Wireless-AC(Wi-Fi/BT CNVi)
• 4 MiB L2 cache per duplex (Up from 2 MiB)

• Graphics
  • Gen 9.5 GPUs
  • HD Graphics 50x → UHD Graphics 60x
    • HD Graphics 505 → UHD Graphics 605 (Pentium Silver J/N 5xxx with 18EU)
    • HD Graphics 500 → UHD Graphics 600 (Celeron J/N 4xxx with 12EU)

New instructions

Goldmont Plus introduced a number of new instructions:

• SGX1 - Software Guard Extensions, Version 1
• UMIP
• PTWRITE
• RDPID

Block Diagram

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Memory Hierarchy

• Cache
  • Hardware prefetchers
  • L1 Cache:
    • 32 KiB 8-way set associative instruction, 64 B line size
    • 24 KiB 6-way set associative data, 64 B line size
    • Per core
  • L2 Cache:
    • 4 MiB 16-way set associative, 64 B line size
    • Per 2 cores
  • L3 Cache:
    • No level 3 cache
  • RAM
    • Maximum of 1 GiB, 2 GiB, 4 GiB, 8 GiB, 16 GiB
    • dual 32-bit channels, 1 or 2 ranks per channel

Multithreading

Goldmont Plus, like Goldmont has no support for Intel Hyper-Threading Technology.

Core

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