The Intel Pentium 8500 is a mobile processor with 5 cores, launched in February 2022. It is part of the Pentium lineup, using the Alder Lake-U architecture with BGA 1781. Intel Hyper-Threading technology is available and effectly doubles the core-count of the P-Cores, to a total of 6 threads. Pentium 8500 has 8 MB of L3 cache and operates at 1000 MHz by default, but can boost up to 4.4 GHz, depending on the workload. Intel is making the Pentium 8500 on a 10 nm production node, the transistor count is unknown. The multiplier is locked on Pentium 8500, which limits its overclocking potential.
With a TDP of 9 W, the Pentium 8500 consumes extremely little energy. Intel's processor supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory with a dual-channel interface. For communication with other components in the machine, Pentium 8500 uses a PCI-Express Gen 4 connection. This processor features the UHD Graphics 48EU integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Pentium 8500, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Additionally, IOMMU virtualization (PCI passthrough) is supported, so that guest virtual machines may directly use host hardware. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) can run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, Intel is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.