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Intel is splitting its high-end Tiger Lake mobile chip lineup to meet two TDP targets: 35 Watts and 45 Watts. Tiger Lake-H35 chips have been launched, with 4 cores, 8 threads, and 96 graphics "Xe" (Gen12) execution units. Later in Q1, Intel will launch 45 Watt TDP Tiger Lake with up to 8 cores, 16 threads.
Intel has also launched new "Jasper Lake" Celeron/Pentium chips on a "10nm" process node. Jasper Lake uses the Tremont Atom core previously used in Lakefield. TDPs range from 6-10 Watts. 16 GB of memory is explicity supported, up from 8 GB of Gemini Lake Refresh (although boards like the ODROID-H2+ supported 32 GB, go figure). Graphics performance of the Pentium Silver N6005 should be substantially higher than its predecessor due to the use of Gen11 graphics and an increase to 32 execution units.
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Also at Ars Technica, The Verge, Notebookcheck, and Wccftech.
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday January 15 2021, @03:16AM (2 children)
Based on what I've heard of their shrinking failures, and their "oops, we assumed a smaller tech and now we have heat/performance issues", one has to wonder.
These may sound well and good, but can Intel actually make the things? Or will they need to subcontract TSMC and friends (well, no friends. TSMC is the leader).
Enquiring minds want to know.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday January 15 2021, @04:13AM
Indications are that "10nm" is working better than ever before. But notice:
1. They have been coming out with mobile "10nm" first. These are easier to make and don't have to reach the same clocks.
2. They are backporting "10nm" Willow Cove cores as "14nm" Cypress Cove cores on Rocket Lake in March.
3. When they do release a true "10nm" desktop CPU, Alder Lake (supposedly in late 2021), that will have 8 big "Golden Cove" cores and 8 small "Gracemont" Atom cores. They are changing their strategy dramatically and part of the reason could be high power consumption and heat.
Intel has been planning to make some GPU products at TSMC, but TSMC could begin making Intel CPUs as well:
TSMC To Produce Intel Core i3 CPUs on 5nm Process Node in 2H 2021, 3nm Mainstream & High-End CPUs Enter Mass Production in 2H 2022 [wccftech.com]
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(Score: 2) by fakefuck39 on Friday January 15 2021, @04:34AM
actually intel's mobile lineup has been extremely successful since they got into that space. it's what's running all the little laptops, convertible touchscreen laptops, and netbooks. things like lenovo yoga. they have batteries that last a full day, they're thin and light as paper, and they run a full blown windows, and it's quite fast.
arm is not the competition for these processors. there only competition is amd mobile, and intel beats them in every category. and there are thousands of these little laptops sold daily. i take one with me when I travel. don't care if i break or lose it. you can get work done on them just fine too - visio, powerpoint, xwindows apps, browsing - just not video editing.
so why would they pay someone else to help them lead more, when they are currently leading in the target market?
now, as far as their fab scaling down issues - i'm not seeing any. first, intel 10nm is not measured on the same scale as samsung 5nm. different metrics for what that "nm" measures. what you're seeing is a lot of detailed info on how they get a process to work, and assume those are failures. that's like standing behind someone while they write code, seeing constant compilation errors, and assuming they're having issues. they're not.
in fact, one thing intel does that others don't, is be conservative. this comes after they got burned by the original pentium, and had to exchange all those CPUs for free. AMD and ARM release stuff that's brand spanking new and on the latest fab. Intel does not. Heck, all their datacenter CPUs is on 14nm - because it's more proven, and companies place more cost on risk than saving a few thousand bucks on CPUs for a million dollar server farm. And still beats the crap out of AMD, despite AMD using a less proven shiny new fab.