Intel Announces Tiger Lake Octacores and Hexacores in H-Series Laptops

Intel has added three new octa-cores and two hexa-cores to its processor portfolio for laptops. These are Tiger Lake chips in the H series. In addition, three business vPro processors and two mobile Xeon chips appear.

The five processors for consumer laptops are produced at 10nm and work at 45W as standard. Intel offers laptop manufacturers the option of running it at 65W with the Core i9-11980HK. In that case, the clock frequency can be 3.3GHz instead of the standard 2.6GHz. With the other four processors, manufacturers can lower the TDP to 35W, which gives them lower clock speeds for longer battery life or cooling systems with lower requirements. The GPU is Intel’s Xe architecture based UHD Graphics, which runs at 350MHz by default and does the job at up to 1450MHz.

The most powerful processor is the Core i9-11980HK, which has eight cores and support for sixteen threads with 24MB L3 cache and a maximum Turbo clock speed of 5GHz, using a single core. Laptops with the processors can deploy up to twenty PCIe 4.0 lanes to combine with graphics cards and storage, and they can support up to DDR4-3200 memory, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 6E.

Intel simultaneously announced two Xeon W1000 mobile workstation processors and three H processors based on the vPro platform. These are chips for business laptops. For example, the Xeons support memory with error correcting code, they offer support for memory encryption with Intel Memory Encryption and Intel Active Management Technology for remote management is available.

According to Intel, a total of more than eighty laptop models from manufacturers with the new processors are on the way. These are relatively powerful laptops, such as those for gaming and graphics professionals. Earlier this year, Tiger Lake H35 processors appeared for less powerful and thinner laptops.