AMD may be ready to strike this week with its 7nm Zen 2-based Renoir Ryzen 4000 APUs, but that isn’t stopping Intel from laying down some pipe with the latest addition to the Comet Lake family. The company announced that its OEM partners will soon be shipping systems powered by 10th generation Comet Lake-H processors.
These Comet Lake-H processors are rated with 45W TDPs, and are still based on Intel’s aging 14nm++ microarchitecture. At face value, this announcement seems more aimed at taking some of the wind out of AMD’s big reveal scheduled for later today, as details surrounding these new chips are rather light at this point.
What Intel is confirming, however, is that these Comet Lake-H chips will be available with up to 8 cores and 16 threads. We’re also being told that Core i7 chips will boost to 5GHz+, while Core i9 branded CPUs will boost to “even higher clocks”, which should make for some interesting performance showdowns against AMD.
Acer’s ConceptD Ezel convertible and Lenovo’s newly announced Legion Y740S gaming notebook are among the first new PCs to be announced with these new Comet Lake-H processors. The latter is scheduled to launch in May 2020, so that should at least give you timeline of when we should expect to see the floodgates open for these 10th generation Core mobile processors.
Unfortunately, that’s all that is all the information that Intel is providing on Comet Lake-H, but the company did give a brief teaser on the incoming Tiger Lake platform. Tiger Lake will succeed Ice Lake, and is built on a refined 10nm microarchitecture.
Intel made it a point to show that Tiger Lake will provide significant advances in AI performance with onboard, low-power accelerators and Deep Learning Boost (DL Boost). The company also confirmed that Tiger Lake will incorporate the company’s all-new Xe graphics engine, which promises a big performance uplift over current IGP solutions.
However, it should be noted that Tiger Lake-based systems are likely far off in the distance and may not arrive until later during the 2H 2020. Until then, those who want to get their 10nm fix will have to “settle” for the stellar Ice Lake solutions that are currently on the market.
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