Intel Whiskey Lake represents another of the architectures used by the chip giant to design the ninth generation of core processors, probably the latest one before the 10-nanometer breakthrough.
Intel Whiskey Lake is a low voltage version with a TDP consumption of 15 watts. It was developed to run convertibles, laptops and generally what we know as ultrabooks. It will be the successor of the Kaby Lake Refresh as we have seen in the latest analysis of the HP Spectre 13 and will be marketed under the “U” series.
These new processors have not yet been officially announced, but HP and ASUS have filtered them for new devices:
As you can see, these are models with the same microarchitecture as Kaby Lake-R and are manufactured in the latest version of the 14-nm process. The new features undergo an adjustment in Turbo Boost technology that allows them to increase the operating frequency in the Core i7, which we see up to a remarkable 4.6 GHz. The integrated graphic corresponds to that of an HD 620.
When will the 10 nm expire?
The leap to production processes of up to 10 nanometers is not easy with PC chips, as they triple the number of transistors in mobile SoCs such as Apple or Samsung. Until the arrival of AMD’s Ryzen, Intel did not feel particularly needy in the midst of a general decline in PC sales.
After some delays, the latest news from the latest Data-centric Innovation Summit shows us how we can make the transition to 10 nm in 2020 with “Ice Lake”.
And a little more. The Whiskey Lake-U will be accompanied by Amber Lake-Y and Cascade Lake-X from 2018 to 2019. A real chaos of models, architectures, generations, series, technological processes, platforms as well as approaches and features from Intel.