Rumor: 35W Intel Tiger Lake processors will consume 9mW in standby

Intel is reportedly working on the Tiger Lake generation of processors, which will consume only 9mW in standby mode. Intel would also come up with three 10nm generations, after which the chip giant wants to switch to 7nm.

The information comes from Ashraf Eassa from The Motley Fool, who more often correctly releases internal Intel information. According to Eassa, the standby consumption of both Tiger Lake’s 28W and 35W processors will be 9mW, as Intel will use Lakefield’s power management. Lakefield is an economical platform for Atom and Core chips, where Intel uses a configuration of powerful and energy-efficient cores, similar to ARM’s big.Little concept. The demonstration of a 35W Tiger Lake chip would Apple ‘surprised’ to have. Just this week, it was announced that Apple wants to push Intel aside and integrate its own processor into Mac systems.

Eassa does not provide details about standby consumption. The most economical standby mode for SOCs in Windows is Modern Standby, which uses the S0 power state. In Windows 8.1, that mode was still called Connected Standby and an Intel Atom Z2760 consumed ‘less than 100mW’ in that mode.

Tiger Lake, in turn, is the successor to Ice Lake, which in turn is the successor to the current Coffee Lake and Canon Lake generations. Tiger Lake, Ice Lake and Canon Lake are becoming 10nm generations of chips. According to Eassa, Intel will use three 10nm nodes before the arrival of 7nm: 10nm, 10nm+ and 10nm++. Intel also used three 14nm nodes: the current Coffee Lake processors are produced at 14nm++.

Eassa also reports that the first dedicated GPU that Intel is working on, under the name Arctic Sound, was initially intended as a data center chip for streaming video. However, Intel would have decided to also gpu for gaming to make. This move is said to have been made by Raja Koduri, who left AMD for Intel.