Intel is promising «a dramatic frequency increase» for its next-gen laptop processors, suggesting Tiger Lake could be a real thorn in the side of AMD's mobile Ryzen chips. Intel's latest Architecture Day has unleashed a slew of information, seemingly with the sole purpose of putting to bed any suggestion of the demise of its engineering prowess.And amid the technological deluge, regarding Intel's ray tracing gaming GPUs and risky Alder Lake hybrid CPUs, is some tangible detail for its soon-to-be-released Tiger Lake laptops. These 11th Gen mobile chips sport the new 10nm production process, and before anyone starts shouting about 10nm+ Intel's come up with a new brand name: 10nm SuperFin.The Willow Cove cores, which make up the Tiger Lake CPUs, will be the first to deliver the new 10nm SuperFin process to the market. Damn, it's like some Russian doll of Intel CPU codenames, right here. The SuperFin details seem to be specifically marketed against the idea of Intel losing process leadership to TSMC's 7nm node (and, by extension, AMD), because the new 10nm design is being talked about as a performance jump «comparable to a full node transition.» Released slides suggest the new design is offering between 15 and 20 percent higher performance compared with current-gen Ice Lake chips.The process improvements mean the Willow Cove cores can offer both higher voltage and higher frequencies, at the same time, and the indications are that we're looking at potential clock speeds getting within touching distance of 5GHz. Though probably only for a very short time.
Intel is promising «a dramatic frequency increase» for its next-gen laptop processors, suggesting Tiger Lake could be a real thorn in the side of AMD’s mobile Ryzen chips.
