Intel shows 10nm+ processor Tiger Lake with Xe GPU and Thunderbolt 4

At CES, Intel gave a sneak preview of Tiger Lake, the new generation of economical processors for laptops that will be released this year. Intel makes the chips on an improved 10nm process and integrates the Xe GPU. Intel also briefly demonstrated the DG1 video card.

Intel showed a Tiger Lake processor and narrow motherboard with the chip at CES. In addition, the company demonstrated working laptops with the next generation of chips. Tiger Lake succeeds Ice Lake and is intended for thin and light laptops. The processors are likely to appear in U and Y variants.

Intel promises that the chip will offer double digit performance improvements over Ice Lake, or 10 percent or more. The processors are among the first to have Xe GPUs. These are based on the new architecture for GPUs that Intel is working on and at Tiger Lake they should, among other things, enable gaming at HD resolutions. In addition, Intel demonstrated upscaling where the calculations were done by the gpu.

Intel makes Tiger Lake on its optimized 10nm process, or 10nm+. The company integrates support for fourth-generation Thunderbolt. According to Intel, this offers throughput speeds that are ‘four times higher than USB 3’. The first laptops with Tiger Lake should be released this year, but Intel did not provide more details.

At the end of the presentation, Intel briefly held a demonstration of DG1, which stands for discrete graphics 1. As the name indicates, it is a separate video card, which Intel builds around the Xe architecture. Intel demonstrated a DG1 mobile graphics card in a laptop running Destiny 2. The intention is that laptops with DG1 as an additional video card will appear this year.