so we're here in Intel's demo room where they are showing concretely that they
are not ready to roll over just yet their much delayed 10 nanometer
processors are finally ready to start shipping in volume and they've even gone
as far as to bring out some demo units that are running the chips now
most of them um actually have their
batteries intentionally drained so that's snoopy people like me pardon the
pun can't you know go poke around in the task manager or anything like that
because they're not talking about exact skus but they are giving us a pretty
decent high level overview of what we can expect they're going to have chips
anywhere from 9 watts to 28 watts up to
4.1 gigahertz turbo with 4 cores and 8
threads but honestly that's not even really the main
story here it's what we're getting aside from the CPU course that makes up the
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Thunderbolt 3. now Thunderbolt 3 isn't really anything new i mean
here this is a more than year old ultrabook with Thunderbolt 3 that i use
as my daily driver the difference is that Thunderbolt used to have much
larger penalties in terms of its power consumption and its cost to implement in
a design so now with ice lake 10 nanometer processors you're gonna have
up to four Thunderbolt 3 ports integrated directly into the CPU this
saves us power and gives us more flexibility in terms of the
implementation so instead of having to put a discrete Thunderbolt 3 chip
separate from the CPU over here that these ports then share for example it's
all going to run off the CPU and each one of the up to four ports gets the
full 40 gigabit per second bandwidth furthermore because of the improvements
they've made to their integrated graphics those Thunderbolt 3 ports are
now going to be capable of natively powering 5k 60 hertz displays now one of
the first things that i asked is hold on a second guys what do you mean Thunderbolt 3. i thought you turned
Thunderbolt 3 over to the usb guys and it's usb4 now and they went well okay
yes usb4 architecturally
can have all of the good stuff of Thunderbolt 3 but there's a lot of
flexibility in the implementation so usb4 on say for example like a mobile
device is not going to be a full fat experience so the Thunderbolt 3 branding
is still going to exist for fully featured
usb4 i don't know whatever best in class
experiences and they're going to continue certifying products to make
sure that they work as well as they can so if you're a content creator for
example with a 1600 megabyte per second sd express card
you might want to check for Thunderbolt 3 instead of usb4 so that you know
you're getting the full performance all of this of course remains to be seen
because we don't know how people are going to implement usb4 yet back to
graphics for a moment here Intel's not saying at least i can't get anyone to
that i can quote on this that their gen 11 onboard graphics are the biggest
generational leap forward that they've had yet in terms of igpu performance but
it's got to be darn close so gen 11 compared to gen 9 we skipped gen 10 i
don't know what happened there it doesn't matter so they're saying it is a 2x improvement not every one of the
upcoming ice lake chips is going to feature the same level of onboard
graphics they've got their iris pro branding as well as their Intel hd
graphics branding and we don't know exactly which chips are going to get which but what i can say is i have never
seen cs go running this smoothly on Intel onboard graphics and they're even
saying that 1080p fortnite is going to be a very attainable experience even
though they couldn't get permission to run fortnite here
the even bigger thing here though is that in their investor day briefing they
were also talking about a potential 2x uplift again on the next generation so
we're looking at up to a four times improvement in onboard graphics
performance over a span of just a couple of years you know the whole thing where
Intel's building a discrete graphics division it wouldn't surprise me to see
some of that next-gen graphics make its way into a discreet card at some point
they're certainly working on the building blocks the next big thing is
integrated wi-fi six now if you guys checked out the primer that we
collaborated with cisco on quite recently we talked about the benefits of
wi-fi six in a nutshell you do get slightly faster speed but that's not
really what it's about it's about significantly lower latency especially
when there are lots of devices or there are lots of things happening with the
network at the same time so you can see the demo behind me is a latency demo
while transferring a file in the background and trying to stream video at
the same time obviously wi-fi six is significantly outperforming wi-fi five
here but if you're familiar with the technology that's not really a surprise
the big surprise is that every 10 nanometer ice lake CPU has wi-fi six on
board so you don't have to rely on the actual manufacturer of your system to go
and purchase a discrete chip at potentially a higher cost to implement
this technology it's going to be everywhere and that's really important
and finally of course we've got everyone's favorite industry buzzword right now ai now between some new
instruction sets some dedicated hardware and the more powerful GPU Intel is
talking about up to a two and a half x performance uplift in ai workloads so
things like noise reduction suppressing background
noise on a skype call things like recognizing people apparently it wants
me to do some bicep curls not holding any weights but
hopefully that's hopefully that doesn't matter for the sake of the demo uh image
retouching and then this is a really cool demo over here so using this 3d
convert software uh our Intel demo
you know vanna thank you is just dragging a png
over here creating a 3d model out of this thing and how long does it take
about 20 seconds 20 seconds not too shabby and then we're gonna go ahead and
we're gonna drop that into a 3d scene
here we go wait for it
bam now obviously it's going to require some touch-ups but this is something
that wouldn't have been possible on previous generation mobile computers
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