Intel finally revealed "Ice Lake" at Computex 2019. (Image via: Wccftech)

Intel Unveils Its 10th Generation

TAIPEI - Intel broke the silence about the next cores for the future. After a series of unfortunate events, Intel came back to the game.

At Computex 2019 in Taipei, while being dominated by revolutionary revelations by nVidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and many more including start-ups, Intel finally walked out with applause and cheers from the audience by the announcement of the end of era for “Whiskey Lake”, by revealing the full detail of “Project Athena” which now has its own code-name, “Ice Lake”.

Everybody had already had a sneak peek of Intel’s “Project Athena” in January 2019 at CES. “Project Athena” emphasized on these points: Focus, Always Ready, and Adaptive. It teased 10nm, and 9 cores processor, something that it has been trying to do since last years, before Intel was blown away by the departure of its CEO, Brian Krzanich, in June 2018.

The three messages that struck the issue on performance, battery life, and connectivity. However, is it true that Intel’s 11th generation covers all of this? Let’s find out.

By entering Ice Lake, Intel at last abandoned the 14nm transistors and entered 10nm. The “Ice Lake” generation uses new revolutionary technologies such as WiFI 6 GIG, Thunderbolt 3 (for faster connectivity) and of course optimization in graphic processing which means smoother and 1080p resolution, even 4K 60 fps video is included in the specifications.

For the performance, Intel answered our prayer by implementing Dynamic Tuning 2.0 equipped with Machine Learning for your computer. Machine Learning deals with predicting the workload for your computer, thus optimize your computer’s thermal budget power so it will not overload.

Nonetheless, the world has to wait for its implementation in PC, since the “Ice Lake” will be implemented first within new generations of laptops. Audience could not blame Intel, since Intel already said in the beginning of “Project Athena” that it would deal with laptops first.

Moreover, Intel has so much to catch up since their last update. While the audience was wowed by all the speedy data, turns out Intel was comparing the data with “Sky Lake”. For your record, “Sky Lake” was released almost 4 years ago!

In terms of clocking performance, indeed, “Ice Lake” is much faster than “Sky Lake” but by a near margin. Near margin seems to be insufficient for 4 years of  development, since the market craves for more innovation.

In the other news, gamers can rejoice, since Intel finally released the i9 processor for gaming. With the announcement of 10th generation cores and i9, the future of e-sports seems bright. In addition, Intel added that this fall, the audience could expect new Intel Core X series.