Intel Formally Announces Whiskey Lake & Amber Lake Low-Power CPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Formally Announces Whiskey Lake & Amber Lake Low-Power CPUs

Intel has announced their new U-series "Whiskey Lake" and Y-series "Amber Lake" processors for laptops, 2-in-1s/convertibles, and other low-power devices...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Announces-Whiskey-Amber

[microcode]

I think Intel is not-so-subtly telling us that they're tired, and it's time to break out the brown stuff to mourn the death of moore's law, and the end of the good times for speculative OoO.

[tildearrow]

Typo.....

but with a 4.6GHz tubo. All three of these CPUs sport Intel UHD Graphics 620. The i7-8565U has a 15 Watt standard TDP and 8MB SmartCache.



The Am-

I wonder why did they choose those codenames...

[Xicronic]

I wonder why did they choose those codenames...

My guess: Ryzen and Intel's 10nm woes ^^

[perpetually high]

I had to make a little cheat sheet yesterday to stop myself from getting confused with all these damn Intel CPUs. I'm still getting a Zen 2 but the confusion was bothering me. (I don't care enough to know where Amber Lake falls).

Ivy Bridge (22nm)
Haswell (22nm+)
Broadwell (14nm shrink of Haswell)
Skylake (14nm)
Kaby Lake (14nm+)
Coffee Lake (14nm++)
Whiskey Lake (14nm+++)
Cannon Lake (10nm shrink of Kaby Lake, delayed)
Ice Lake (10nm+, Spectre/Meltdown fixes)
Tiger Lake (10nm++, Spectre/Meltdown fixes)

EDIT: See grigi's post for a more accurate and in-depth list.

[mzs.112000]

I had to make a little cheat sheet yesterday to stop myself from getting confused with all these damn Intel CPUs. I'm still getting a Zen 2 but the confusion was bothering me. (I don't care enough to know where Amber Lake falls).

Ivy Bridge (22nm)
Haswell (22nm+)
Broadwell (14nm shrink of Haswell)
Skylake (14nm)
Kaby Lake (14nm+)
Coffee Lake (14nm++)
Whiskey Lake (14nm+++)
Cannon Lake (10nm shrink of Kaby Lake, delayed)
Ice Lake (10nm+, Spectre/Meltdown fixes)
Tiger Lake (10nm++, Spectre/Meltdown fixes)

Where does Sandy Bridge, and Nehalem go on this?

[Girolamo_Cavazzoni]

You missed Westmere. After Nehalem.

[Apokalypz]

I agree, confusing as hell. I skimmed the article and when I looked at the Amber lake part and saw i7 in conjunction with a TDP of 5 watts and was like "No way." Then I read more thoroughly and realized the i7 part isn't even quadcore. Man, at 5W TDP, how often must that clock bump it's head on the ceiling?

As far as I remember, weren't the performance classes as follows?:
Celeron: up to 2 core, no L3.
Pentium: up to 4 core, no L3.
i3: up to 2 core w/ HT, small L3.
I5: up to 4 core w/o HT, medium to large L3.
i7: up to 4 core w/ HT, large L3, High frequency.
I9: "Let's just see how deep this rabbit hole goes..."

[grigi]

There is a reason Charlie calls it "i-somethingmeaningless". There is almost no correlation.

Another correction, 2/4 core Coffee Lake is just a rebranded Kaby lake. And so is Whiskey and Amber. no 14+++ exists.
The new Whiskey/Amber processors just have an updated chipset, and updated, but unreachable "1C Turbo speeds"

[grigi]

Nehalem (45nm)
Westmere (32nm shrink of Nehalem)
Sandy Bridge (32nm)
Ivy Bridge (22nm shrink of Sandy Bridge)
Haswell (22nm+)
Broadwell (14nm shrink of Haswell)
Skylake (14nm)
Kaby Lake (14nm+) (and later 14nm++)
Coffee Lake (14nm++) (Only 6-core variant)
Cannon Lake (10nm shrink of Kaby Lake, delayed, broken)
Whiskey/Amber Lake (14nm++) (Rebranded Kaby Lake, updated chipset)
Cascade Lake (14nm++ (Only 8-core variant) (partial Spectre/Meltdown fixes)
Cooper Lake (14nm++, rumoured MCM stopgap for Ice Lake)
Ice Lake (10nm+, partial Spectre/Meltdown fixes)
Tiger Lake (10nm+, ???)
Sapphire Rapids (new arch)

It is argued that all Specre/Meltdown fixes are stopgap solutions, and that it may only be properly solved by Sapphire Rapids.
MCM: Multi-Chip-Module → like the AMD Threadripper/Epyc