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Intel's Latest 8th-Gen Core Processors Focus on Improving Wi-Fi Speeds (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-the-record dept.

IFA 2018 is here, and to go along with the wealth of new laptops that will presumably be announced over the next few days, Intel is taking the wraps off its latest 8th-Gen processors. There are three new Whiskey Lake U-series chips (Intel's midrange line for laptops), and, for the first time, there are three 8th-Gen Amber Lake Y-series processors. From a report: While Intel is still using the same underlying architecture as its previous processors -- making these new chips ostensibly an "8.5-Gen" lineup, at least where the U-series models are concerned -- the big change that the company is highlighting is integrated gigabit Wi-Fi support. Intel promises that this should result in dramatically faster internet speeds, especially apparent on the cheaper, midrange laptops that may not have been able to offer those kinds of speeds before. Also being added to the new Y-series and U-series chips is built-in support for virtual assistants like Cortana and Alexa. So you should expect to see the digital assistants cropping up on more laptops in the near future. Further reading: Intel Launches Whiskey Lake-U and Amber Lake-Y: New MacBook CPUs?

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  1. Is this some last minute hand-wavy redirection? by mnemotronic · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would have liked to have been in the meeting where the on-chip radio product manager was told his feature had to be pushed onto center stage to redirect attention away from the whole speculative execution / prefetch arena. What minor wifi improvement could be spun as the greatest thing since politician retirement announcements?

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  2. Re:Network Card by darkain · · Score: 3, Informative

    Multiple things are merged into a single chip now. Have you questioned why the memory controller is on the CPU instead of the north bridge nowadays? What about integrated GPU? Or PCIe? Or SATA? Or Ethernet? Or USB? Why is WiFi so perplexing with everything else is already integrated into a single die? (as a note, this is what several other Intel Atom chips do, I have a T5700 with integrated WiFi)