News New Tiger Lake i7 and i5 Chips Join Intel's 11th-Gen Family

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i7 with 4 cores. "Great" refresh. The model number cannot get more confusing. I feel Intel needs to clean this mess up soon. We used to have i3, 5, 7 and 9 to clearly demarcate the different tier of processors where the higher the number, the more cores/ more power they become. Now they have a few i7 models, some with 4, some with 8 cores. Then they have the G7(suffix) to indicate the iGPU config, which can differ in specs (different number of EUs) as well. I really feel Intel is running in every direction in panic.
 
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Intel probably created these skus for certain OEMs for differentiation with their competition. Microsoft for example in their surface lineup never used the mainstream U-series skus - they used the i7 6600U, 7600U, 8650U instead of, respectively, the mainstream i7 6500U, 7500U, 8550U.