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NEWS INTEL LAUNCHES ICE LAKE CHIP

Ice Lake’s “sizzle reel”—everything that Intel believes that Ice Lake can offer, along a number of
performance axes.

and 8 threads, in
either a 9W, 15W, or
28W power tier.

Base frequencies
begin at 700MHz

and climb to
2.3GHz, while
single-clock turbo

frequencies top out
at 4.1GHz. Graphics

frequencies will The basic specifications of Intel’s Ice Lake processor, summed up.
hover right around
1GHz, with 32, 48, and 64 EUs differentiating Ice Lake base clock speeds fall short of their

performance. We also have real-world testing existing 8th-gen Whiskey Lake counterparts.
data (go.pcworld.com/ilpf) to demonstrate Some of the new Ice Lake low-power chips

how Ice Lake delivers graphic performance on offer base clocks of less than 1GHz. Versions
a par with the lowest tier of discrete GPUs. of Ice Lake designed for tablets now consume
A bit of sticker shock, however, may affect 9 watts, rather than the 5 watts of their

how some perceive Ice Lake. Most 10th-gen predecessors, Amber Lake.

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