By Bill Thomas
Intel Whiskey Lake will supposedly be behind the next generation of laptops, but what do we know about it?
Because it wouldn’t be 2018 without a plethora of different Intel releases that may or may never actually happen, we thought it would be fitting to dive into all the details and rumors revolving around Intel Whiskey Lake. Another week another microarchitecture, amirite?
Let’s take things back to Computex 2018 real quick. Intel was all over the news, for its 28-core behemoth, but it also shared another key piece of information – that two new mobile-based microarchitectures would make their way to the public in the near future – Amber Lake Y-series and Whiskey Lake U-series.
Now, why these are two separate microarchitectures is beyond us, but they’re both products of the third refinement of Skylake, and act as a direct successor to Kaby Lake-R. You might find yourself thinking “wait a second, weren’t there some Coffee Lake U-series processors announced back in like April?”
You’d be right! However, we actually haven’t seen many laptops with these Intel Coffee Lake U-series processors – most of the best laptops this year have featured either Kaby Lake-R or Coffee Lake …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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