Intel ice lake at 10nm: deliveries to OEM manufacturers begin

The Intel group is beginning to offer 10nm Ice Lake architecture processors to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for a market presence during the holiday season.

Intel prepares large stock of Ice Lake processors by year-end

After several years of delays and the forced extension of the use of the 14nm node, the Intel team will be launching with Ice Lake its first 10nm chips for the desktop PC market.

During Computex 2019 in Taiwan, Intel promised the first PCs equipped with Ice Lake processors at the end of the year and it looks like it will.

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Pursuant to this guideline, deliveries of the first generation of 10th generation Intel Core processors at Ice Lake began to reach original equipment manufacturers in anticipation of the arrival of the notebooks for the holiday season.

Production started at the beginning of the year to have an initial stock and certifications were obtained during the first half of the year, which should allow the first devices to arrive at the end of the third quarter or the beginning of the fourth of 2019.

For this first wave, Intel focused on the low-power processor ranges (Intel Core -U and -Y) with a range of about ten Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 chips offering different GPU / iGPU configurations and TDPs of 9W, 15W or 28W. The chipset will manage WiFi 6 and is compatible with the PCIe 3.0, USB 3.1 Gen 2 and Thunderbolt 3 interface.

New CPUs are estimated to have an average CPI improvement of around 18% when compared to the previous generation. In addition, the new Gen11 iGPU will debut. We will keep you informed.

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