9/22/2023 0 Comments Intel tick tock haswell![]() Sitting at the top of the stack is the Core i7-1068G7, the sole 28W processor. Out of the processors being announced today, they mostly fall into the 9 W or 15 W categories. Type 3 is a bigger package, suitable for 15 W-28 W Ice Lake-U designs, while Type-4 is for 9-12 W platforms under Ice Lake-Y. Intel’s Ice Lake SoC comes in two form factors, technically called ‘Type 3’ and ‘Type 4’. Intel is not currently discussing any desktop or server processor equivalents at this time: the base Ice Lake design is current a quad-core processor with HyperThreading, and a beefy integrated graphics. These processors are now being produced in sufficient volume to supply key launch partners with hardware in order to enable laptop and mobile designs to hit the shelves by the end of the year. Today, Intel is announcing the processors for both its Ice Lake-U and Ice Lake-Y processors. The Road to Ice Lake-U and Ice Lake-Y: 11 SKUs Some finer details will be discussed in this article. If you want to find out more on the microarchitecture behind Sunny Cove, please read our deep dive posted earlier this week. If you want to find out more on the Intel 10nm process story, please read our Cannon Lake Review. It isn’t every day we see a combined ticktock from Intel (AMD has done it twice in two years), but I’m glad it is here. Not only is Ice Lake set to take advantage of new process node technology, with smaller transistor and lower voltage operation, but also apply a mélange of new features and new performance benefits at the same time. Intel has turned back the clock with a ticktock on the block.įor the general user, this is a good thing™. Ice Lake, for the first time in a long time, sees Intel change both the process technology and the microarchitecture design at the same time. The point I’m trying to make here is that Intel has historically only ever done one of two or three things with a product update: improve the process node, improve the microarchitecture, or optimize the design. Technically Intel did release a Process update in H1 2018 with Cannon Lake on 10nm, but that was a limited distribution. Unfortunately, that plan quickly unravelled, as we ended up with multiple Optimizations based on the Skylake microarchitecture built on 14nm: Kaby Lake, Kaby Lake-R, Coffee Lake, and Coffee Lake-R, not to mention the mobile space which also received Amber Lake and Whiskey Lake. ![]() ![]() This is essentially Tick Tock, but with another step of Optimization on the end. The company moved from a two-step cadence in Tick Tock to a 3-step cadence called Process Architecture Optimization. Intel stayed on this Tick Tock strategy from 2006 to around 2017, when it appeared that its 10nm process node technology was to be delayed. For any Tock, the same process node was used as the previous generation, but we saw a new core design and microarchitecture, such as moving from Ivy Bridge to Haswell. For any Tick, the same core design was used on a new manufacturing process node, such as moving from 45nm to 32nm. For every new product family and generation, it would be known as a Tick or a Tock. ![]() A Quick Recap on Ice Lake: Intel’s New Tick+Tockįor the best part of a decade, Intel was on it’s a strategy known as Tick Tock. In advance of systems coming onto the market, Intel gave a small number of press a day of hands-on time with its Software Development Systems so we could get a taste of performance of Sunny Cove, Gen11, and Intel's newest 10nm product. Using 'the same but different' 10nm process, Ice Lake holds inside a new 10th Gen Core microarchitecture called Sunny Cove, Gen11 graphics, and support for LPDDR4X-3733 as well as Thunderbolt and Wi-Fi 6. Intel's new Ice Lake platform is the company's second attempt at producing a 10nm chip for the mass market, and follows on from the Cannon Lake platform.
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