XPS 13 and Latitude 9510 Dell launch Tiger Lake with Evo certification and 5G

XPS 13 and Latitude 9510

Although Dell cannot yet show fully equipped notebooks for the announcement of Intel new processor generation Tiger Lake, the manufacturer wants to be involved with a teaser. The XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1 are expected to receive the new CPU soon, and for the Latitude 9510 comes 5G.

As a big Intel partner, Dell apparently didn’t want to have the show stolen by other notebook manufacturers like Acer, Asus or Lenovo at the IFA 2020 and Intel Tiger Lake announcement. Although the company is not yet able to provide concrete information on the new XPS innovations, there is still something like light on the horizon and an outlook on what is to come in the future.

XPS 13 with Intel Tiger Lake

XPS 13 with Intel Tiger Lake

It is not surprising that Dell will use Tiger Lake for the first time in the Ultrabook flagships XPS 13 and XPS 2-in-1. The company today confirmed that in the new notebooks Intel Core processors of the 11. Generation will be used and that these will soon be on the market. Since Tiger Lake will not be available until the end of September, but probably at the beginning of October, Dell could follow up with a more concrete announcement at this time.

Certification planned according to Evo standards

Both XPS models will also carry an Evo certification, which is something like the second-generation Project Athena. But while Project Athena was not recognizable to the end customer by means of stickers or similar hints on the notebook, Evo clearly becomes part of the marketing at Tiger Lake. To carry the Evo seal, notebooks must meet certain requirements for display, memory, connectivity, multimedia and battery. A detailed article on Evo is currently in preparation.

5G modem for the Latitude 9510 available

More concretely, Dells current presentation of the Latitude 9510 with 5G support. The 2-in-1 for business customers, which was launched in May of this year, can now no longer only be ordered with LTE, but also with 5G modem. The new mobile radio standard poses particular challenges to antenna design, as the Latitude 9510 is made entirely of metal and blocks the signals. Therefore, the 5G antennas now sit in the base of the two speakers, whose plastic trim ring is classified by Dell as an "aesthetic design feature". On a first picture, the integration is indeed visually discreet. For the 5G connection, Dell relies on a Snapdragon X55 multi-mode modem from Qualcomm.