Currently, the Tiger Lake series is divided into four groups, but according to reports from AnandTech, this list will grow to five groups with the inclusion of Intel Tiger Lake-R (Refresh).
Intel Tiger Lake-R would be released later this year for notebooks
The Tiger Lake-R processors will be released as an update to the current Tiger Lake-U processor series and will offer higher clock speeds. This series is the only series of processors (Tiger Lake-U) that would receive such an update. This is the information from the folks at Anandtech, but it is not out of the question that Intel will update its other series with “refresh” models for its H35 series or the Intel Core for the desktop.
What we do know at this point is that the Tiger Lake-U series of processors should be coming in the third quarter of this year, so the Tiger Lake-R variants could land by the end of the year.
We recently learned that the Tiger Lake-H (45) series will launch in two weeks, and the first notebook manufacturers have already started announcing their products with these chips.
The Tiger Lake series represents a big upgrade for Intel in the notebook segment to give strong competition to the Ryzen 5000 APU chips. The same goes for the current Rocket Lake-S on the desktop in relation to the Ryzen 5000 processors.
Finally, the support for LPDDR5 is also mentioned. With LPDDR5-5600 memory, the maximum memory bandwidth would be 89.6 GB/s, which is 75% higher than DDR4-3200 memory or 31% higher than LPDDR4X-4267 memory. This will also lead to an improvement in the graphics performance of the Iris Xe.