Intel preparing to launch 10nm Tiger Lake processor family on 2nd September, 2020

Intel to launch Tiger Lake 10nm processor family on September 2nd, 2020. The event was outed by Intel on their Investor Relations Page events schedule and is labelled 'Tiger Lake Virtual Launch Event' and currently scheduled for September 2, 2020 12:00 PM ET. Not much details are mentioned about the event aside from the overly obvious title. The event is virtual owing to the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic and will be broadcast by Intel.

Intel Tiger Lake

Intel's Tiger Lake family of processors will use their 10nm++ Willow Cove CPU cores along with their new and upcoming Xe GPU architecture. Officially, this will be Intel's third 10nm CPU family after Cannon Lake and Ice Lake . As mentioned previously, Tiger Lake will use Intel's Willow Lake CPU cores along with Intel Xe GPU which is their Gen12 GPU microarchitecture with up to 96 Execution Units as per some early leaked benchmarks. The Xe GPU supposedly has 12-bit, 4:2:2 & 4:4:4 fixed-function hardware decoding & VP9 12-bit 4:4:4 fixed-function hardware decoding and AV1 10-bit 4:2:0 fixed-function hardware decoding.

More importantly, Tiger Lake will supposedly support PCI Express 4.0, Thunderbolt 4, and LPDDR5 memory. These are all preliminary details that are yet to be confirmed as Intel has not released any official information regarding the same. Intel did tease Tiger Lake powered laptops at CES 2020 (Codenamed Horseshoe Bend) which gave us a good idea of how powerful Xe Graphics could be. Since Tiger Lake is using Willow Cores, we could expect to see Intel Deep Learning Boost (DL-Boost) AI/ML acceleration instruction extentions as well.

Another event outed by Intel's Investor Relations website is a session to be held by Raja Koduri which will supposedly cover updates to some of Intel's CPU microarchitectures in greater detail. Since the Tiger Lake event is right around the corner, it would be easy to assume that the session would have plenty of information regarding Tiger Lake. Again, we don't know the exact nature of the session since the information has not been provided by Intel yet.

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