Intel has at least two new processor families set to launch this year. Intel’s 7th-gen Core chips, code-named “Kaby Lake,” will replace the current Skylake lineup in notebooks, desktops, and high-performance tablets, while the new Celeron and Pentium chips based on “Apollo Lake” architecture are low-power, low-cost chips that will pick up where Intel’s Braswell left […]
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Leaked Intel Kaby Lake, Apollo Lake details suggest confusing names for next-gen low-power chips
Comments Off on Leaked Intel Kaby Lake, Apollo Lake details suggest confusing names for next-gen low-power chipsIntel doesn’t have a great track record of giving its processors names that are easy to understand. Theoretically you should be able to look at the name and have a rough idea of the price and performance you should expect from a processor, but in recent years the waters have been kind of muddy: some […]
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Intel launches pricey 10-core chip, Xeon chip with better graphics, confirms “Kaby Lake” chips coming in 2016
Comments Off on Intel launches pricey 10-core chip, Xeon chip with better graphics, confirms “Kaby Lake” chips coming in 2016Intel’s 7th-gen Core chips should be available before the end of 2016. During the company’s press event at Computex, Intel officials confirmed the chips, code-named “Kaby Lake,” were still on track to launch in the second half of the year, along with lower-power “Apollo Lake” chips which will be used in cheaper notebooks and 2-in-1 […]
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Unofficial Intel timeline: 7nm chips in 2020, 5nm in 2022?
Intel used to release chips on a Tick-Tock schedule, which basically meant that every other chip would use a new manufacturing process. Since 2006 Intel moved from 65nm chips to 45nm, 32nm, 22nm, and 14nm chips in this fashion. But things are different this time around. The company has already released 14nm Broadwell and Skylake chips, […]
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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 […]