Tiger Lake Intel 10NM Processors Thin Notebooks

Intel XE Tiger Lake

Intel XE Tger Lake

The range of Intel Core processors for notebook systems currently includes various proposals, some of which built with manufacturing technology at 10 nanometers. Let’s talk about the models known with the code name of Ice Lake, low power solutions proposed in declinations of 9 watts or 15 watts of TDP, configurable up to a maximum of 28 watts in systems specially developed for this up to a minimum of 5 watts. It does not change the number of cores that is always equal to 4, with 8 threads that can be processed in parallel.

Tiger Lake is the code name that identifies the Intel Core processors of subsequent evolution, always intended for the smallest mobile systems and attentive to consumption: we speak in this case of the eleventh generation Core Cpus. For these proposals Intel will continue to maintain the number of cores equal to 4, implementing however not only some architectural improvements on the CPU side but above all expanding significantly the processing power of the integrated GPU compartment.

Intel Tiger Lake Graphics

With these CPU, in fact, Intel will introduce the Xe architecture in notebook systems, thus managing to get closer to what is offered by AMD with its Ryzen family processors. Already with Ice Lake the GPU component integrated by Intel has made a clear leap forward compared to the previous generation but with Tiger Lake should be highlighted even more sharp differences.

According to new rumors appeared online in recent hours, the Tiger Lake proposals should keep the TDP as maximum and minimum extremes: for Tiger Lake-Y models we will have TDP equal to 9 watts, modifiable from a minimum of 5 Watt to a maximum of 15 Watt depending on the needs of the manufacturer of the notebook. For Tiger Lake-U solutions, however, the TDP will be 28 Watts configurable at 10 Watts or 15 Watts always according to specific needs.

Intel Rocket Lake

Tiger Lake processors will adopt a 4+2 configuration with the first digit indicating the number of cores and the second referring to the GPU component. The 12-generation Intel Xe video subsystem will integrate 96 execution units, which should correspond to 768 shading units: this should allow to obtain, according to the indications provided by Intel, a doubling of the performance of the video compartment compared to the GPU Gen 11 integrated in Tiger Lake processors, in turn able to effectively double the Gen 9 one integrated in previous generation processors.

Tiger Lake processors are expected to debut during the summer but we believe that the most plausible period is that of back to school then from the second half of August onwards. These Cpus will be built using the second generation of production technology at 10 nanometers, hoping that Intel will be able to obtain higher production yields from this compared to the reduced yields of the first 10 nanometer Core Cpus that were placed on the market.