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NEWS INTEL LAUNCHES ICE LAKE CHIP

On paper, Intel’s 8th-gen Whiskey Lake chips look more attractive. But Intel says design enhancements
and other improvements will boost real-world performance higher.

can boost to about the levels of their Whiskey WHAT’S NEXT? PROJECT

Lake counterparts. How long Ice Lake chips ATHENA, FASTER SPEEDS,
can remain in boost mode will help determine PROBABLY MORE CORES.
their performance. Again, our performance What we’ll learn at the end of August about

evaluation goes into more detail (go.pcworld. the next chip will also help position Ice Lake.
com/ilpf). Will that chip introduce an H-series part?

While Intel’s eighth-gen Whiskey Lake Simply flesh out the top end of the “U-series”
chips still emphasized performance increases lineup with a Core i9 offering? Introduce an
(go.pcworld.com/wisk) versus the prior entirely new lineup? Based on what

generation, those chips introduced Intel’s Senderowitz said about the entirety of the Ice
gigabit Wi-Fi and two ports of Thunderbolt 3 Lake product line, we’d opt for the latter.

I/O. Both have been beefed up, to gigabit+ Apparently the Core i7-1068G7 doesn’t
speeds as well as four Thunderbolt ports. necessarily represent the high end of Intel’s
Intel also enhanced its graphics quality as Core offerings for 2019. A six-core, twelve-

well as its performance, with support for three thread processor almost certainly is in Intel’s
simultaneous 4K displays at 120Hz, a pair of future, too.

5K displays at 60Hz, or a single 8K30 display. Remember, Ice Lake represents Intel’s first
The graphics engine includes three display mass-market 10nm processor and its first
pipes that support DisplayPort 1.4 HBR3 and major redesign in several generations. Even

HDMI 2.08, plus HDR10 and Dolby Vision. though Intel shipped its first 10nm Cannon

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