Now that laptops featuring Intel’s 11th-gen Core “Tiger Lake processors are shipping, the chip maker is shifting to desktops. As previously announced, Intel plans to launch a series of 11th-gen Core chips, code-named “Rocket Lake-S,” in early 2021. Now the company is providing some details about what we can expect from those chips. Despite the […]
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Intel launches 10th-gen “Comet Lake” chips, including the first 6-core U-series processor
4 Comments on Intel launches 10th-gen “Comet Lake” chips, including the first 6-core U-series processorIntel’s new 10nm “Ice Lake” processors with Gen11 graphics may have kicked off the launch of the chip makers 10th-gen Core processor lineup. But not all 10th-gen chips will be Ice Lake. The company’s new “Comet Lake” processors chips for laptops, 2-in-1 tablets, and other low-power devices are manufactured using the same 14nm process Intel […]
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Report: Intel Gemini Lake Refresh low-power chips are on the way
Intel’s upcoming 10th-gen Core “Ice Lake” processors may be blurring the lines between low-power Y-series chips and higher-performance U-series processors, but Intel is also continuing to crank out cheaper, lower-power Celeron and Pentium “Gemini Lake“chips based on its Atom-based “Goldmont Plus” architecture. Now it looks like a new set of Gemini Lake Refresh processors are on the […]
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Intel’s 14nm Comet Lake-U chips are also coming this year
After years of delays, this year Intel plans to begin shipping large volumes of 10nm chips for the first time. The company’s 10nm Ice Lake chips are already shipping to OEMs and we should see laptops, tablets, and other devices with the 9 watt to 28 watt chips in time for the 2019 holiday season. […]
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Intel 8th gen Core chips coming later this year
Intel Says it’s on track to launch the first chips based on its 8th-gen “Core” technology in the second half of 2017. Code-named “Coffee Lake,” the new processors are manufactured using a 14nm process, much like most Core series chips Intel has released since late 2014. But Intel says its upcoming 8th-gen Core i7 processor will still […]
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Intel’s upcoming Kaby Lake chips will still be 14nm
For most of the past decade, Intel has been releasing new chips in a tick-tock pattern. A tick means the shrinking of the manufacturing process technology, while a tock signals an improved microarchitecture. But for the first time since 2007, Intel is delaying the tick. The company’s next two families of desktop and notebook chips will […]
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Samsung begins producing 14nm Exynos 7 Octa processors
A few months after first introducing the Exynos 7 Octa processor, Samsung has announced an updated version is on the way. While last year’s model was a 64-bit, ARMv8 processor based on a 20nm design, the new chips will be 14nm processors. Samsung says mass production of the first chips developed with a 14nm FinFET process is […]