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Intel says that more than 35 notebooks of 14nm and the new 10nm products
built around Ice Lake microprocessors will be co-existing in the market, things may get
sold alongside existing Whiskey Lake and confusing—especially with Qualcomm’s
Amber Lake notebooks, beginning this Snapdragon 8cx (go.pcworld.com/qs8c) and
holiday season. There’s still more to come: AMD’s third-gen mobile Ryzen (go.pcworld.
Intel’s next microprocessor disclosure will be com/rchp) chips also in play.
made in the second half of August, where the Before you can parse Intel’s new Ice Lake
“second part of our mobile family” will target products, however, you’ll need to describe
“high-frequency applications” and form the them—and yes, Intel has a new model
foundation for Intel’s commercial offerings, number scheme, too.
said Ran Senderowitz, vice president of Intel still offers Core i3, i5, and i7
mobile platform marketing for Intel’s Client processor families, differentiating their
Computing Group. good-better-best status. Each Ice Lake model
Will that be Intel’s next-gen Tiger Lake number also begins with a ‘10’ prefix to
chip (go.pcworld.com/tgcp), due in 2020? designate its 10th-generation status.
Or the Comet Lake chip (go.pcworld.com/ Now, however, there are good-better-best
comt) that was part of a recent leaked suffixes, too: the G1, G4, and G7 descriptors
roadmap? Things are getting messy. signal the various tiers of graphics performance,
with both the G4 and G7 tiers falling under the
HOW TO READ INTEL’S NEW Intel Iris Plus branding. Also, Intel has officially
ICE LAKE MODEL NUMBERS done away with the U-series and Y-series labels
Intel is promising to ship new products to for notebooks and tablets. Instead, the fourth
every PC segment over the next 12 months— digit of the model number now designates the
nothing particularly new, as product refreshes power tier: “5” for a U-series chip, and “0” for
occur throughout the year. But with a mixture a Y-series processor. A single 28W (or 8-tier)
chip exists: the Core i7-1068G7.
Still confused? See the graphic
to the left:
INTEL’S ELEVEN ICE
LAKE CHIPS,
EXPLAINED
Now that you know what to
Here’s how to make sense of the new Intel model numbers. look for within Intel’s Ice Lake
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