{"id":26905,"date":"2021-02-25T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tpole.it\/news-by-t-pole\/intel-tiger-lake-whats-new-in-the-11th-generation-low-power-soc\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:35:11","slug":"intel-tiger-lake-whats-new-in-the-11th-generation-low-power-soc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tpole.it\/en\/news-by-t-pole\/intel-tiger-lake-whats-new-in-the-11th-generation-low-power-soc\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel® Tiger Lake: what’s new in the 11th generation low power SoC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TIGER LAKE IS AMONG US<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s find out what’s new together<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Intel\u00ae Tiger Lake: what’s new<\/h2>\n\n
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With the launch of the Tiger Lake <\/strong> architecture in Q3 2020, Intel\u00ae has begun to upgrade the low-power platform used in the consumer environment to create performing laptop solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the platform is also extremely interesting for the industrial market, since it can be used to create ultra-compact solutions characterized by an excellent level of performance per watt <\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger Lake ranks as a direct successor to Whiskey Lake <\/strong> and improves the offer in several respects.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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CPU<\/h2>\n\n
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The number of available cores do not increase, since it was brought from two to four passing from Kaby Lake-U to Whiskey Lake, but we record an increase in performance both with single-threaded (+ 30%) and multi-threaded (+ 70%) loads <\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

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GPU: the actual news<\/h2>\n\n
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Pushed by the success of AMD Ryzen Embedded 1000 series APU solutions, which combine in a low-powered chip not only an excellent CPU but also a GPU with above average performance among the integrated proposals, Intel\u00ae has decided to upgrade in a profound way the integrated GPU component in Tiger Lake SoCs.<\/p>\n\n

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In fact, we note the adoption of the Iris Xe G7 <\/strong> and UHD Graphics G4 <\/strong> solutions that integrate up to 96 EU (Execution Unit) compared to the 24 EU present in the UHD 620 <\/strong> integrated in the top of the range Whiskey Lake.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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This represents a significant step forward and places the performance of the Iris Xe G7 <\/strong> unit not only above the previous UHD Graphics 620, but also the proposed AMD Vega 8 integrated in the Embedded 1000 series APUs, resulting in comparable with the current AMD Vega 8 integrated in the 4000 series <\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

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Leaving the embedded landscape, Iris Xe G7 also exceeds the performance of the previous generation Iris Plus 655 <\/strong> solution integrated into Intel\u00ae Coffee Lake-U processors <\/strong> used as the basis of NUC solutions for the consumer market. These GPU solutions outperform the integrated graphics in desktop-grade processors (UHD Graphics 630) but have not found application in the industrial field due to the lack of embedded Coffee Lake-U processors, i.e. with 15 years of lifetime.<\/p>\n\n

Eventually, Intel\u00ae has made a great integrated graphics component available to the embedded market as well. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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Platform and expansion<\/h2>\n\n
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The SoC Tiger Lake have a programmable TDP in three power steps (12W, 15W and 28W) <\/strong> to accommodate different application scenarios and increase design flexibility. The production process has been updated to 10nm and guarantees lower consumption and greater efficiency <\/strong> compared to the previous generation at 14nm. Support for DDR4-3200MHz RAM is introduced, <\/strong> to the full advantage of bandwidth to memory for CPU and GPU.<\/p>\n\n

Among other new features there is now support for 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and the PCIe 4.0 standard <\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

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How to take advantage of the new platform?<\/h2>\n\n
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The platform is ideal for the engineering of compact solutions, with low consumption but still characterized by an excellent level of performance.<\/p>\n\n

We present our offer of Ultra-compact Box PC solutions based on this platform:<\/p>\n\n

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Vecow: SPC-7000 series<\/h2>\n\n
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Features<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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