Intel lists new Tiger Lake processors with a mysterious "B" suffix.
Intel Lists 65W B-Series Tiger Lake CPUs With Very High Clocks : Read more
Intel Lists 65W B-Series Tiger Lake CPUs With Very High Clocks : Read more
Seems more likely to be for SFF/NUC systems. They're all listed as desktop CPU's, not mobile CPU's in their ARK pages.Intel lists new Tiger Lake processors with a mysterious "B" suffix.
Intel Lists 65W B-Series Tiger Lake CPUs With Very High Clocks : Read more
Intel approved Rocket Lake development in early 2019. Before even Zen2 CPU's had been released, so Intel had no idea what they were going to be competing against from AMD. By the time Zen3 CPU's released late last year, it was too late to cancel Rocket Lake.Makes you really question why Rocket lake was released, and why we won't see a desktop refresh till Alder lake. Guess it is likely due ot 14nm vs 10nm capacity. These would have been much better than Rocket lake.
It would an extremely nice gesture, or they could also bring a derivative of Alder Lake to LGA1200 as well… I see no reason why Z590 lives for barely 6 months…before new cpus that don’t support it come to market.It would be a nice gesture from Intel to bring these to the current LGA 1200 socket.
Intel gave up on 10nm two years ago, moving most new investments towards 7nm instead of scaling 10nm up, so I doubt it has anywhere near enough 10nm volume to handle a full-scale transition to Alder Lake.Makes you really question why Rocket lake was released, and why we won't see a desktop refresh till Alder lake. Guess it is likely due ot 14nm vs 10nm capacity.
Delays in getting Rocket Lake to market pushed the releases closer together. I'm still skeptical we will see desktop Alder Lake this year. Intel may announce it this year, like they did Rocket Lake late last year, but I doubt there will be "normal" availability until well into 2022.I see no reason why Z590 lives for barely 6 months…before new cpus that don’t support it come to market.
They didn't have a full-scale transition to Rocket Lake yet either (only i5 and above) and RL had a reduced core count for the i9 on top.Intel gave up on 10nm two years ago, moving most new investments towards 7nm instead of scaling 10nm up, so I doubt it has anywhere near enough 10nm volume to handle a full-scale transition to Alder Lake.
I suspect Rocket Lake exists mainly because Alder Lake will be nearly unobtainable and overpriced, albeit possibly not quite as bad as Broadwell.
Cypress Cove cores are bigger, the Xe IGP is bigger too so something had to give to keep die size manageable. Despite having two fewer cores, Rocket Lake is 270mmsq vs 206mmsq for Comet Lake. It is understandable that Intel may not be eager to bring a 30% die size increase to entry-level SKUs while it is already short on fab capacity across the board.They didn't have a full-scale transition to Rocket Lake yet either (only i5 and above) and RL had a reduced core count for the i9 on top.
10nm is truly an evolution of 14nm, or a two year gap in traditional Intel tick/tock. The i3-11100 is a small upgrade to my i3-8100, same TDP, same base clock. Multi-threading is a good upgrade though for highly threaded workloads