Any news about how many Cores will the top dog have? Frequencies? Wattage? Something to forget this mizerabile fiasco called 11th generation
The top dog will be a 16C/24T thing, no idea on Freq/TDP yet as it relies on Intel fixing their FUBAR 10nm or pulling another Rocket Lake and backporting it to 14+++(+?)
It's basically going to be a "cove" 8C/16T big core with 8 puny Atom cores that handle low-priority, low power background stuff. The labelling convention that people are unofficially using (me included) is perhaps misleading though: 16C/24T implies all cores are equal which they obviously aren't. It also implies that instructions can be shifted around between big and little cores easily.
The reality is that the big cores will look very much like an 11th-gen i5/i7/19, but hopefully on 10nm if Intel can actually get it working properly. The little cores won't have the same instruction set. Sure, it's still basic x86-64 but "cove" and "mont" architectures are quite different internally - you can just move instructions from one core to another if they're not the same core and it won't even be a hardware issue. Remember how long it took Microsoft to get the scheduler right for Zen2? That was just two identical sets of four cores on indentical architecture. I suspect Intel's Big.Little architecture attempts might take Microsoft half a decade to really take advantage of properly. It would be nice if I was wrong - I genuinely WANT to be wrong but we're talking about a company that had 2+ years of prior notice to getsomething as simple as CCX scheduling worked out, and they still missed the launch by several months. This is the same company that, despite promising to do so a decade ago under Sinovsky still hasn't finished moving some of their underlying OS technology off Windows NT whilst they instead focus on new icon art and ways to sell and use your personal data for profit.
So yeah to get code to run seamlessly across two different core types, concurrently, with different cache, different instruction set support, at different clockspeeds, priorities, registers.... OMG. Google and Apple might be able to do it because their underlying OS isn't a dumpster fire that's been burning for two decades. Meanwhile, Microsoft - I, uh. I have no words. Here are some other peoples' words:
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