Intel to Unveil "Tiger Lake-H" and "Rocket Lake-S" on March 18

[btarunr]

Intel is expected to unveil its 11th generation Core "Tiger Lake-H" performance-segment mobile processor, and the highly anticipated 11th Gen Core "Rocket Lake-S" desktop processor family on March 18, 2021. The two will be launched on the sidelines of the 2021 GDC (Game Developers Conference), an online event. The agenda page of GDC mentions both "Tiger Lake-H" and "Rocket Lake." The "Tiger Lake-H" family of processors begin with quad-core SKUs based on the 4-core "Tiger Lake" silicon, extending to 6-core and 8-core ones based on a newer 8-core silicon. Both dies are built on the 10 nm SuperFin node, and combine Intel's highest-IPC "Willow Cove" CPU cores with a Gen 12 Xe iGPU.

The 11th Gen Core "Rocket Lake-S" has been unveiled back at the 2021 International CES (online event) in January, and is heading toward a mid/late-March launch. The chips pack up to eight "Cypress Cove" CPU cores, which are a back-port of Intel's 10 nm CPU core architectures to the 14 nm node, bringing the first IPC increase on the client desktop platform from Intel since 2015. At GDC, we expect Intel to detail individual SKUs within the 11th Gen Core processor family, giving us a broader idea of what chips will launch this month. The GDC backdrop also foreshadows the marketing strategy for Intel with both these platforms—gaming. The company will take advantage of the IPC uplift to present its processors as being better for gaming, and sufficiently fast in most client-relevant tasks. The GDC backdrop could also let Intel show off the ISV relations it's built with game developers, detailing how certain popular game engines are optimized for Intel.



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[nguyen]

How Intel get to label a 4 cores 8 thread CPU as core i7-11370H in 2021 in beyond insanity, it should have been core i3.
So now what are they gonna name the 6 cores and 8 cores variant? Core i9 and core i11?

 

[Deleted member 205776]

Yawn. Alder Lake when?

 

[cristi_io]

How Intel get to label a 4 cores 8 thread CPU as core i7-11370H in 2021 in beyond insanity, it should have been core i3.
So now what are they gonna name the 6 cores and 8 cores variant? Core i9 and core i11?

The same thing when Intel labeled as a i7 cpu a 2core/4thread one in the past, but people still bought laptops with those low-powered cpus because its an i7.

 

[dj-electric]

RKLS unveiling is in 6 hours from the moment of writing this comment, homie.

 

[ZoneDymo]

"highly anticipated"

 

[RandallFlagg]

How Intel get to label a 4 cores 8 thread CPU as core i7-11370H in 2021 in beyond insanity, it should have been core i3.
So now what are they gonna name the 6 cores and 8 cores variant? Core i9 and core i11?

Being a laptop SKU, the recent pattern for Intel has been i5 = 4 cores and i7 = 6 cores for the high powered H series SKUs, i9 is 8 core.

So yeah, they seem to be going backwards with the H series.

The 4 core i7 is not a big deal IMO on the low power SKUs for thin and light U series, most do not expect those to be powerhouses and don't do heavy MC workloads on them. With Xe graphics and high single core performance, I think TGL-U is the best you can actually buy for that thin-and-light workload use case right now.

But it is a big deal on high power SKUs meant for larger laptops where they're meant to replace desktops (including gaming laptops). I guess we'll see where the price points land.