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Goldmont µarch
General Info
Arch Type	CPU
Designer	Intel
Manufacturer	Intel
Introduction	August 30, 2016
Process	14 nm
Core Configs	2, 4, 8, 12, 16
Pipeline
Type	Superscalar
Speculative	Yes
Reg Renaming	Yes
Stages	12-14
Instructions
ISA	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	1-2 MiB/2 Cores 16-way set associative
Cores
Core Names	Apollo Lake, Denverton
Succession
Airmont Goldmont Plus

Goldmont (GLM) is Intel's 14 nm microarchitecture of system on chips for the ultra-low power (ULP) devices. Goldmont-based processors and SoCs are part of the Atom, Pentium, and Celeron families. Goldmont superseded Airmont in August of 2016. With Goldmont, Intel stopped targeting smartphones altogether, cancelling the related cores and SKUs.

Intel Atom E3900 SoC series

Codenames

Platform	Core	Target
	Apollo Lake	Entry-level PCs, Tablets
	Denverton	Ultra-low power servers, networking, storage, and IoT
	Willow Trail	Lightweight Tablets & high-end smartphone
Morganfield	Broxton	Smartphone

Process Technology

Main article: Broadwell § Process Technology

Goldmont-based chips are manufactured on Intel's 14 nm process.

Architecture

Key changes from Airmont

• Pipeline
  • Compared to Airmont, Goldmont is a 3-issue core.
  • NOPs, MOVs and many ALU operations have 3 op/cycle throughput for 16, 32 and 64-bit registers. (8-bit ALU ops throughput is 2, 1.5 or 1 op per cycle).
  • ADC, SBB have 0.5 op/cycle throughput, unchanged from Airmont.
  • INC, DEC, BTx, shift ops are not faster than on Airmont, 8-bit shifts are slightly slower (0.66 op/cycle instead of 1).
  • Rotate-through-carry (RCL, RCR) throughput continues to be slow and is slightly slower (used to be ~10 cycles per op, now ~12).
  • 16- and 64-bit shift-double (SHLD, SHRD) throughput continues to be slow and is slightly slower (used to be ~10 cycles per op, now ~14) than on Airmont. (32-bit SHLD, SHRD are fast: 2-4 cycles).
  • Variable shifts and rotates (SHL r32, CL etc) latency increased from 1 cycle to 2 cycles.
  • Bit scan (BSF, BSR) throughput improved from 10 to 8 cycles per op.
  • MUL throughput is better by 1 cycle (used to be 5/7 cycles for 32/64-bit mul, now 4/6).
  • DIV is more than twice as fast as Airmont, 13 cycles for most divides, 128-bit/64-bit are ~42 cycles.
  • PUSH to POP forwarding is improved.
  • REP MOVS streaming copy is twice as fast: now ~26 bytes/cycle.
  • REP STOS fill is not improved: ~9 bytes/cycle.
  • Some vector instructions are faster, but like on Airmont, none have throughput >2 op/cycle. This includes often used ops like adds and multiplies:
    • MULPS and MULPD have 4 cycle latency and 1 op/cycle throughput (used to have L5 and T0.5).
    • ADDPD has 3 cycle latency and 1 op/cycle throughput (used to have L4 and T0.5).
  • CRC32 instruction throughput improved from 6 cycles/op to 1 cycle/op, latency is halved from 6 to 3.
• Gen 9 GPUs
  • HD Graphics 400 → HD Graphics 500 (12 Execution Units, no change)
  • HD Graphics 405 → HD Graphics 505 (18 Execution Units, up from 16)

New instructions

Goldmont introduced a number of new instructions:

• RDSEED - Generates 16, 32 or 64 bit random numbers seeds (NIST SP 800-90B & NIST SP 800-90C)
• SMAP - Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
• MPX -Memory Protection Extensions
• XSAVEC - Save processor extended states with compaction to memory
• XSAVES - Save processor supervisor-mode extended states to memory.
• CLFLUSHOPT - Flush & Invalidates memory operand and its associated cache line (All L1/L2/L3 etc..)
• SHA - Hardware acceleration for SHA hashing operations
• FS/GS base access

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:
    • 1 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
    • dual 32-bit channels, 1 or 2 ranks per channel

Multithreading

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

Die Shot

Intel Atom E3900 SoC series:

All Goldmont Chips

Goldmont Chips
Main processor									IGP
Model	Family	Platform	Core	Launched	SDP	TDP	Freq	Max Mem	Name	Freq	Max Freq
C3308	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		9.5 W 9,500 mW 0.0127 hp 0.0095 kW	1,600 MHz 1.6 GHz 1,600,000 kHz	131,072 MiB 134,217,728 KiB 137,438,953,472 B 128 GiB 0.125 TiB
C3338	Atom		Denverton	22 February 2017		9 W 9,000 mW 0.0121 hp 0.009 kW	1,500 MHz 1.5 GHz 1,500,000 kHz	131,072 MiB 134,217,728 KiB 137,438,953,472 B 128 GiB 0.125 TiB
C3508	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		11.25 W 11,250 mW 0.0151 hp 0.0113 kW	1,600 MHz 1.6 GHz 1,600,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3538	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		15 W 15,000 mW 0.0201 hp 0.015 kW	2,100 MHz 2.1 GHz 2,100,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3558	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		16 W 16,000 mW 0.0215 hp 0.016 kW	2,200 MHz 2.2 GHz 2,200,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3708	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		17 W 17,000 mW 0.0228 hp 0.017 kW	1,700 MHz 1.7 GHz 1,700,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3750	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		21 W 21,000 mW 0.0282 hp 0.021 kW	2,200 MHz 2.2 GHz 2,200,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3758	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		25 W 25,000 mW 0.0335 hp 0.025 kW	2,200 MHz 2.2 GHz 2,200,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3808	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		25 W 25,000 mW 0.0335 hp 0.025 kW	2,000 MHz 2 GHz 2,000,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3830	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		21 W 21,000 mW 0.0282 hp 0.021 kW	1,900 MHz 1.9 GHz 1,900,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3850	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		25 W 25,000 mW 0.0335 hp 0.025 kW	2,100 MHz 2.1 GHz 2,100,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3858	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		25 W 25,000 mW 0.0335 hp 0.025 kW	2,000 MHz 2 GHz 2,000,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3950	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		24 W 24,000 mW 0.0322 hp 0.024 kW	1,700 MHz 1.7 GHz 1,700,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3955	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		32 W 32,000 mW 0.0429 hp 0.032 kW	2,100 MHz 2.1 GHz 2,100,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
C3958	Atom		Denverton	15 August 2017		31 W 31,000 mW 0.0416 hp 0.031 kW	2,000 MHz 2 GHz 2,000,000 kHz	262,144 MiB 268,435,456 KiB 274,877,906,944 B 256 GiB 0.25 TiB
x5-E3930	Atom x5	Apollo Lake	Apollo Lake	2017		6.5 W 6,500 mW 0.00872 hp 0.0065 kW	1,300 MHz 1.3 GHz 1,300,000 kHz	8,192 MiB 8,388,608 KiB 8,589,934,592 B 8 GiB 0.00781 TiB	HD Graphics 500	400 MHz 0.4 GHz 400,000 KHz	550 MHz 0.55 GHz 550,000 KHz
x5-E3940	Atom x5	Apollo Lake	Apollo Lake	2017		9.5 W 9,500 mW 0.0127 hp 0.0095 kW	1,600 MHz 1.6 GHz 1,600,000 kHz	8,192 MiB 8,388,608 KiB 8,589,934,592 B 8 GiB 0.00781 TiB	HD Graphics 500	400 MHz 0.4 GHz 400,000 KHz	600 MHz 0.6 GHz 600,000 KHz
x7-E3950	Atom x7	Apollo Lake	Apollo Lake	2017		12 W 12,000 mW 0.0161 hp 0.012 kW	1,600 MHz 1.6 GHz 1,600,000 kHz	8,192 MiB 8,388,608 KiB 8,589,934,592 B 8 GiB 0.00781 TiB	HD Graphics 505	500 MHz 0.5 GHz 500,000 KHz	650 MHz 0.65 GHz 650,000 KHz
J3355	Celeron		Apollo Lake	30 August 2016		10 W 10,000 mW 0.0134 hp 0.01 kW	2,000 MHz 2 GHz 2,000,000 kHz	8,192 MiB 8,388,608 KiB 8,589,934,592 B 8 GiB 0.00781 TiB	HD Graphics 500	250 MHz 0.25 GHz 250,000 KHz	700 MHz 0.7 GHz 700,000 KHz
J3455	Celeron		Apollo Lake	30 August 2016		10 W 10,000 mW 0.0134 hp 0.01 kW	1,500 MHz 1.5 GHz 1,500,000 kHz	8,192 MiB 8,388,608 KiB 8,589,934,592 B 8 GiB 0.00781 TiB	HD Graphics 500	250 MHz 0.25 GHz 250,000 KHz	750 MHz 0.75 GHz 750,000 KHz
N3350	Celeron		Apollo Lake	30 August 2016	4 W 4,000 mW 0.00536 hp 0.004 kW	6 W 6,000 mW 0.00805 hp 0.006 kW	1,100 MHz 1.1 GHz 1,100,000 kHz	8,192 MiB 8,388,608 KiB 8,589,934,592 B 8 GiB 0.00781 TiB	HD Graphics 500	200 MHz 0.2 GHz 200,000 KHz	650 MHz 0.65 GHz 650,000 KHz
N3450	Celeron		Apollo Lake	30 August 2016	4 W 4,000 mW 0.00536 hp 0.004 kW	6 W 6,000 mW 0.00805 hp 0.006 kW	1,100 MHz 1.1 GHz 1,100,000 kHz	8,192 MiB 8,388,608 KiB 8,589,934,592 B 8 GiB 0.00781 TiB	HD Graphics 500	200 MHz 0.2 GHz 200,000 KHz	700 MHz 0.7 GHz 700,000 KHz
J4205	Pentium		Apollo Lake	30 August 2016		10 W 10,000 mW 0.0134 hp 0.01 kW	1,500 MHz 1.5 GHz 1,500,000 kHz	8,192 MiB 8,388,608 KiB 8,589,934,592 B 8 GiB 0.00781 TiB	HD Graphics 505	250 MHz 0.25 GHz 250,000 KHz	800 MHz 0.8 GHz 800,000 KHz
N4200	Pentium		Apollo Lake	30 August 2016	4 W 4,000 mW 0.00536 hp 0.004 kW	6 W 6,000 mW 0.00805 hp 0.006 kW	1,100 MHz 1.1 GHz 1,100,000 kHz	8,192 MiB 8,388,608 KiB 8,589,934,592 B 8 GiB 0.00781 TiB	HD Graphics 505	200 MHz 0.2 GHz 200,000 KHz	750 MHz 0.75 GHz 750,000 KHz
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