Introduced in Israel by Intel, the new Ice Lake and Sunny Cove processors for laptops that could arrive before the end of the year
The arrival of the AMD Ryzen 3000 is forcing Intel to accelerate the introduction of 10nm processors. On the part of the company, a presentation was made at its Tel Aviv offices in Israel. Specifically, the Ice Lake and Sunny Cove processors have been presented, designed for laptops. These processors are based on 10nm lithography, so the 14nm farewell begins.
According to Intel, these new processors will offer us significant performance improvements. The average improvement in the IPC will be 18%, since it will range between 10% and 40%, depending on the processor. Something that could translate into desktop processors that could arrive at the end of the year.
Intel privately unveils Sunny Cove and Ice Lake processors in 10nm
New processors based on a new internal design that seeks to optimize the efficiency of the instructions per cycle. L1 and L2 cache is increased to offer performance improvements. The changes will be as follows:
- 48kB L1 cache (previously 32kB)
- 512kB L2 cache (previously 256kB)
- L2 TLB increases from 1536 to 2048
- ΜOps increase from 1,5K to 2,25K μOps, on average
- With this, we will be able to execute around 352 instructions per cycle, instead of 224
- In-Flight Loads increase from 72 to 128
- In-FLight Stores range from 56 to 72
This will result in an improvement in performance over the previous generation, based on raw data. The number of executions per cycle will increase. Some Sunny Cove benchmarks have also been shown, with a notable increase in power in mononucleus.
Regarding Intel's Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 for laptops, they will arrive with the following features:
- Up to 4 cores and 8 threads
- 8MB cache memory
- Frequencies up to 4.1GHz
- Support for LP4 / x-3733 or DDR4-3200
- Gen 11 iGPU with max 64 EU at up to 1.1GHz
Source: cowcotland
