Intel unveiled its plans for the 10th Gen Intel Core processor family, formerly code-named Ice Lake, for release later this year.
Intel showed off its 10th Gen Intel Core processors at the Computex 2019 trade show in Taiwan today. The big chip maker also revealed new details on Intel’s innovation program, codenamed “Project Athena,” that will level up mobile computing.
And Intel showed off its first-ever gaming processor with an all-core turbo of 5GHz. The 10th Gen Intel Core chips are shipping now, but computers with the chips won’t be available until the holiday season.
“No one wants to compromise, people want it all: battery life, performance, responsiveness, connectivity, and slick form factors,” said Gregory Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the client computing group, in a keynote talk at Computex. “Our job is to come together as an industry and deliver incredible and differentiated PCs, purpose-built to what real people want. 10th Gen Intel Core processors — our most integrated CPU — and Project Athena are great examples of how our deep investments at a platform level will help fuel innovation across the industry.”
The 10th Gen Intel Core Processors will bring high-performance artificial intelligence processing to scale with Intel Deep Learning Boost (Intel DL Boost), or special instructions aimed at streamlining AI processing.
The processors are built on the company’s 10-nanometer manufacturing process technology, new “Sunny Cove” core architecture, and its new Gen11 graphics engine.
10th Gen Intel Core processors will range from Intel Core i3 to Intel Core i7, with up to 4 cores and 8 threads, up to 4.1 max turbo frequency, and up to 1.1GHz graphics frequency.
Intel is targeting the 10th Gen Intel Core processors at thin-and-light laptops and convertible 2-in11s. Intel DL Boost will deliver an estimated 2.5 times improvement in AI performance for low-latency workloads.
The new graphics architecture delivers up to one teraflop of vector compute for heavy duty inference workloads to enhance creativity, productivity and entertainment on highly mobile, thin-and-light laptops.
For low-power AI usages on the PC, Intel Gaussian Network Accelerator (GNA) is built into the SoC.
