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Intel launches 10th-gen ‘Ice Lake’

chips, pushing hard on graphics

for notebook PCs

If you already own a Matebook or Matebook Pro, or are eyeing one on Amazon, here’s
what you need to know. BY MARK HACHMAN

ntel’s eleven new Ice Lake chips are positioning its first mass-market 10nm parts as

betting big on graphics. Intel claims that improvements for the notebook PC as a
its new 10th-gen Core family, launched at whole, including AI, communications, and

I the start of August, will offer the best I/O. The overarching message is “new”: a
integrated graphics experience of any thin- new process technology, a new CPU core,
and-light notebook PC—about equaling what and a new graphics engine, along with “new”

some discrete chips offer in PCWorld tests. advancements in communications and I/O.
Intel began setting up Ice Lake Here are Intel’s mobile Ice Lake chips, in a
expectations in May (go.pcworld.com/icla), nutshell: 11 processors, most sporting 4 cores

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