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Intel Demonstrates 10nm Ice Lake Processor, Promises PCs Will Ship With it Later this Year (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

Intel announced a major rethink of its chip design back in December, just before it finally delivers 10nm chips for PCs and laptops. At CES 2019 this week, Intel is demonstrating its first Ice Lake 10nm processor that's based on its new Sunny Cove microarchitecture. From a report: Intel is building in Thunderbolt 3, Wi-Fi 6, and DL Boost (deep learning boost) into these Ice Lake chips for laptops and PCs to take advantage of. Intel is now promising that PC makers will have devices with Ice Lake processors on shelves by the end of 2019. At its CES keynote today, Intel demonstrated ODM systems from Pegatron and Wistron, and Dell even joined Intel on stage to show off an Ice Lake-powered XPS laptop that will be available later this year. Dell didn't show the device powered on, but it appeared to be a 2-in-1 device that looked similar to the XPS 13. Intel is also looking to the future, too. The chip giant is planning to use Foveros 3D chip stacking technology to build future chips, a method that allows Intel's chip designers to stack extra processing power on top of an already-assembled chip die. These "chiplets" can be stacked atop one another to form a processor that includes graphics, AI processing, and more.

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  1. Still vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Come back when your crap a actually works.

    1. Re:Still vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown? by NicknameUnavailable · · Score: 3, Insightful

      This is a low quality shill attempt, even for Intel.

  2. Why would you put wifi on the CPU. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unless IntelME has some low-level Ring-0 phoning home to do.

    1. Re:Why would you put wifi on the CPU. by jellomizer · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Overall reduce size of your technology, and power consumption. I don't like the idea of integrated everything chips myself. But they are advantages in integrated.

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      If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
    2. Re:Why would you put wifi on the CPU. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Actually the details are that it's much less integrated into the subsystem, it sits on the CPU level as opposed to -1 -2 -3 like IME, and it shows zero function when the machine is off, unlike IME. You know nothing about it.

    3. Re:Why would you put wifi on the CPU. by AHuxley · · Score: 2

      Think of the fun spies and police will have with wake on wifi.

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    4. Re:Why would you put wifi on the CPU. by Rockoon · · Score: 2

      How would you know if they're the same or not?

      Intels has proven to be a security risk, while AMD's isnt even in a position to have the same security risks because AMD's is a hypervisor while Intels is several containment levels more privileged than a hypervisor. If your system had both, Intels would be in full control of AMD's. Its really that god damned simply.

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  3. Really by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Dell didn't show the device powered on"

    Wow. Real impressive.

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Re:10nm? by iggymanz · · Score: 2

    don't worry, node size has just been a marketing term now for years.

    It does NOT mean half-pitch or gate length is 10nm.

    It's a term for another generation of smaller chip size than the last one. And yeah, the 10nm components on one manufactures chip could be bigger or smaller than competitors 10 nm....or 12 nm.....

    great times we live in, marketing things by buzzwords and hype instead of hard data and specs. (marketing wanks and sales choads should be lined up and summarily shot, to usher in a new age of less B.S.)

  6. Intel ME by jmccue · · Score: 2

    Does it still have "ME" ? If so can it be fully disabled ? If disabled can it be validated ?

    If not, "Thanks but no thanks"