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Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1

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Re: Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1

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Can someone who knows about processor design summarize this for me? Will intel have a comeback or is it all about ARM/AMD now?

This specific announcement is an incredibly run of the mill "Intel produced a new larger variant of a chip they already make". It's still produced at 10nm, this is not any kind of big step forward to catching up with Apple.

Re: Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1

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Can someone who knows about processor design summarize this for me? Will intel have a comeback or is it all about ARM/AMD now?

The thoughts of reviewers based on their claims is that likely you will get something that is competitive with current gen ryzen mobile (4900h on the high end) on power usage/perf and competitive with m1 on perf, but not power usage. However, I don't see them drawing even with Apple on power efficiency, and AMD have their Zen 3 mobile chips in the near future, so it's more a holding on in technical quality. Likely they will outsell both though, given the M1's Mac exclusivity and the limited range of AMD laptops (and limited stock of TSMC 7nm everything currently) - try buy a 4900H system vs a 108xxH, it's much harder.

Re: Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1

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Can someone who knows about processor design summarize this for me? Will intel have a comeback or is it all about ARM/AMD now?

WCCFtech has a better article with image summaries. https://wccftech.com/intel-launches-tiger-lake-h-tgl-h-mobil...

Re: Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1

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post #3

Can someone who knows about processor design summarize this for me? Will intel have a comeback or is it all about ARM/AMD now?

This specific announcement is an incredibly run of the mill "Intel produced a new larger variant of a chip they already make". It's still produced at 10nm, this is not any kind of big step forward to catching up with Apple.

So if I was gonna try to interpret tea leaves, did yields finally increase to where 8 cores on a die was viable or was it just limited to 4 cores before to maximize capacity?

Re: Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1

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post #4

Can someone who knows about processor design summarize this for me? Will intel have a comeback or is it all about ARM/AMD now?

The thoughts of reviewers based on their claims is that likely you will get something that is competitive with current gen ryzen mobile (4900h on the high end) on power usage/perf and competitive with m1 on perf, but not power usage. However, I don't see them drawing even with Apple on power efficiency, and AMD have their Zen 3 mobile chips in the near future, so it's more a holding on in technical quality. Likely th…

Intel getting TSMC to build some of its chips is also I think a way to constrict AMD supply rather than them actually needing the production

Re: Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1

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Intel's 10nm SuperFin process at 5 GHz is quite impressive. Clocks like that, combined with the core improvements, should allow Intel to compete on performance and core count.

its good, but amd will have zen4 at 5nm soon, does intel have a node shrink coming soon, and can they execute?
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