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Intel Rocket Lake-S desktop processor comes in core counts up to 8, Gen12 iGPU included

Intel's 11th generation Core Rocket Lake-S desktop processor will come in core-counts only up to 8, even as its predecessor, Comet Lake-S, goes up to 10. Both Comet Lake-S and Rocket Lake-S are 14nm chips. Comet Lake-S comes with core counts of up to 10, a TDP of up to 125 Watts, Gen 9LP iGPU with 48 execution units, and native support for up to 128 GB of DDR4-2667. The Rocket Lake-S silicon is interesting. Rumored to be yet another derivative of Skylake, it features up to 8 CPU cores, the same 125W maximum TDP, but swanky Gen12 iGPU with 32 execution units. The memory controller is also upgraded, which supports DDR4-2933 natively. There is no Ice Lake-H or Ice Lake-S in sight (no mainstream notebook or mainstream desktop implementations), ditto Tiger Lake. For the foreseeable future, Intel will only make quad-core designs of the two 10nm microarchitectures. Rocket Lake-S is slated for 2021 when, hopefully, we'll see Intel escape the 14nm black hole.

Izvor: TechPowerUp