May 28, Computex Taipei, Intel has finally released the long-awaited years of the first 10nm process product family, code-named Ice Lake tenth generation core mobile notebook processor, including Core i3 three sequences and i7, Core i5, Core Rui torch Iris Plus HD graphics, but are replaced with a new lOGO logo.
Intel said, 10nm Ice Lake processor is now in volume production and shipments, notebook-related products will also be listed in the second half.
From 2006's number of Merom Core 2 Duo 65nm process began, Intel manufacturing process has been insisting steady pace in 2023 to upgrade generation, but suffered some setbacks in 10nm, and now from 2014, the first generation of 14nm, the fifth generation of Core Broadwell has been five years.
10nm Ice Lake is a new platform, but also by far the most advanced notebook platforms, have a new transistor technology and processes, the new CPU / GPU architecture, new integrated technology platform, has started shipping in volume next-generation laptops will shelves soon.
This is a layout configuration diagram of 10nm Ice Lake CPU and main characteristics of the specifications, new look: from the CPU to the GPU from the memory to the display output from the display to the image processing, from lightning to interconnect bus 3, it is new. Back one by one to explain.
Matching is a 14nm process PCH chipset , integrated Wi-Fi 6 802.11ac MAC (CNVi 2) with discrete RF AX201, fully integrated voltage regulator, the DSP core built-in programmable four, supporting voice wake available six USB 3.1 or ten USB 2.0, sixteen PCIe 3.0, three SATA 6Gbps, eMMC 5.1.
Ice Lake using CPU, PCH two-chip package, according to the level of power consumption, there are two styles, one is 15W the Type. 3 , a thickness of 1.3 mm, 1526 balls, the other is more compact 9W the Type. 4 , a thickness of 1.0 mm, 1377 balls.
Ice Lake in the mobile processor into the end of the first low-power Ice Lake-U, ultra-low power consumption of Ice Lake-Y two sub-series, have a thermal design power of 9W, 15W, 28W are three up to eight quad-core threads, maximum acceleration frequency 4.1GHz (but lower), the maximum level three cache 8MB, nuclear was integrated into Iris Plus (48/64 unit), UHD (32 units), with maximum acceleration frequency 1.1GHz, dual memory support channel DDR4-3200 (U series), LPDDR4 / 4X-3733.
CPU part, Ice Lake apply the new Sunny Cove architecture , which is the beginning of many for future Intel new architecture, we had already made a detailed introduction.
Simply put, the internal architecture of the main unit Sunny Cove architecture, cache expansion have done, deeper and wider, and more intelligent, such as improved branch prediction accuracy and reduce the effective load latency, client optimization, and enhance new encryption command performance, expanded vector performance, enhanced security features.
Intel claims, Ice Lake IPC performance compared to Skylake (six-generation Core) average increase of 18%, up to 40% , but note that this is comparing four years ago, six generations Core.
The actual performance, the Five Core Broadwell single-core performance power 15W thermal design power consumption, Ice Lake compared to five years ago improved more than 45%
Significantly enhance the nuclear aspect of the GPU greater amplitude, execution unit suddenly raised to a maximum number of 64, the highest frequency of 1.1GHz, the highest single-precision floating point performance 1.12TFlops, half-precision 2.25TFlops , while enhancing the rasterizer can be processed per clock cycle 16 pixels, three cache increases to 3MB.
/ VP9 two fixed function video decoding units responsible HEVC (H.265) (dual decoder), up to 4K60,8K30, while three separate three-screen video output lines supports, support DisplayPort 1.4 HBR3, HDMI 2.0b, maximum output 5K60,4K120 10-bit.
Although Intel nuclear was insufficient to meet the big game, but has also been optimized to enhance the game, this time to broaden the architecture to optimize energy efficiency, reshape the memory subsystem, and finally supports the VESA adaptive synchronization technology , drive control center also completely refurbished and will offer synchronization support for popular games first time.
Intel promised to support adaptive synchronization technology has been for many years, and now finally realized, similar to AMD FreeSync, to avoid tearing, Caton, known as the frame rate can enhance up to 80%.
Intel claims, 48/64 Iris Plus nuclear unit was average frame rate can guarantee the majority of games of more than 30FPS, but also partially break 60FPS.
Video multimedia is huge progress, for the first time integrated FP16 HDR display pipeline and support HDR10, Dolby Vision, BT.2020 and so on.
The new drive has begun preview UI in the current version, especially for gamers, can automatically detect hardware, set the best playability configuration now supports 44 games a key optimization, the future will be more than 400 models, but also custom configuration different games, starting the day of the big game there is a new driver support.
Linux has also progressed very quickly, has entered the Beta testing stage, the end of the third quarter to achieve all the features, updates Gallium3D drive end performance optimization are underway.
Intel also great emphasis on Ice Lake AI performance, Sunny Cove CPU adding support DLBoost machine learning acceleration, combined with the GPU core, low-power accelerator, full support for Windows ML, Intel OpenVINO, Apple CoreML and other frameworks, compared to eight generations of Core Performance can easily upgrade 2 -2.5-fold, compared to some competing products is up to 8 times.
This is the first large-scale integrated PC processor AI.
Meanwhile, Ice Lake CPU also added based on machine learning to dynamically adjust Dynamic Tuning 2.0 technology , we can predict workloads, longer allow the processor to run at higher performance state, will not be quick off frequency.
Platform integration, Lightning 3 has entered the Ice Lake, and along with Lightning 3, USB 4 standard integration as a whole, but also for the future popularity of USB 4 ready, of course, is now the main external output USB 3.x, PCIe, DisplayPort.
Independent, integrated system architecture diagram Lightning 3, do not understand it does not matter ......
Intel has contributed Lightning 3, and become the foundation USB 4, to achieve ultra-high speed 40Gbps, and the future only USB-C, an interface.
Wi-Fi 6 is part of Ice Lake platform, faster, lower latency, greater capacity, allowing more devices to run more stable at higher speeds, especially in support 160MHz channels and OBSS network noise filter, improve while the speed and improve network reliability, in particular, improve network performance in a dense environment.
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