Intel Launches Lakefield Hybrid Processors: Uncompromised PC Experiences for Innovative Form-Factors

[Caring1]

These will most likely be used in Surface go/ Surface Pro, and high end mobile phones.

 

[ARF]

It's a mystery why Intel decided to rebrand Pentium-class performance to Core i5-class performance, when the Pentium G4560 2C/4T is actually slightly faster than this new Core i5-L16G7.

Intel Pentium G4560 Benchmarks - Geekbench

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[TheGuruStud]

These will most likely be used in Surface go/ Surface Pro, and high end mobile phones.

I have bad news for you...

 

[btb]

It's a mystery why Intel decided to rebrand Pentium-class performance to Core i5-class performance, when the Pentium G4560 2C/4T is actually slightly faster than this new Core i5-L16G7.

Intel Pentium G4560 Benchmarks - Geekbench

browser.geekbench.com

Apples and oranges.. Lakefield 7 W TDP vs Pentium G4560 54W TDP

Personally I think its an interesting new CPU, which should be a good fit for very lightweight fanless laptops for business travel and such.

Example: https://news.samsung.com/global/experience-the-next-level-of-mobile-computing-with-galaxy-book-s

 

[ARF]

Apples and oranges.. Lakefield 7 W TDP vs Pentium G4560 54W TDP

Not exactly because Pentium G4560 is probably the worst possible bin, with much older process and revision of the micro-architecture.

 

[$ReaPeR$]

Might work if it was designed for iOS, they tried with Windows already and their Phone was a fail.

True, but tech moves forward. A good example is the iPhone, there where smart phones before the iPhone, but Apple made it stick because it used the right tech in the right combination at the right point in time.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

One more push towards a unified OS. Interesting, can't wait for the response from ARM.

They went first, its called the X1 core.

This has no chance IMHO , both Apple and Arm and even Qualcomm will have competing parts with lower power small cores and at least 2 high power cores, and software has gone multithreaded now, it is too late in the day for a single high-performance core to be viable across a wide range of typical use cases IMHO

 

[$ReaPeR$]

They went first, its called the X1 core.

This has no chance IMHO , both Apple and Arm and even Qualcomm will have competing parts with lower power small cores and at least 2 high power cores, and software has gone multithreaded now, it is too late in the day for a single high-performance core to be viable across a wide range of typical use cases IMHO

True, but I was talking about windows machines, not Android or Mac OS. Although I totally agree on the "it is too late in the day for a single high-performance core to be viable across a wide range of typical use cases IMHO". For Android and Mac the single big for seems to be working probably because of optimizations. Snd 865 is a good example of 1 big/high frequency core plus 3 medium plus 4 low. But I don't think that is the best option for the future.

 

[N0Spin]

I for one am glad to see this. I just wish they were further along to suit my current uses.

If only as their initial salvo into further miniaturization and revised processor packaging it sounds like something that should evolve into good things for them and us eventually. Consider Intel eventually die-shrinking something like the "comet-lake" laptop chip as the 'main processor' in something like this with the addition of a couple minor smaller cores. On the speeds, and comparable power I would counter that this is their version 1.0 product for this process. Not sure how many people reading this remember but USB v1.0 (which we used to call plug-n-pray) sucked too...but look at it now.