Tiger Lake Lands
A whole new family of low-power chips
IT’S BEEN a while since Intel had something properly new and shiny to boast about. Now it does: Tiger Lake has finally arrived. It’s a family of 11th-gen mobile processors using the Willow Cove microarchitecture coupled to the new Xe graphics engine. It replaces Ice Lake, which used Sunny Cove cores (the first proper new microarchitecture design from Intel since 2015’s Skylake). Before we get too excited, Intel has started at the bottom- the first wave of Tiger Lake processors is all the U series, aimed at low-power mobile devices of up to 28W. Tiger Lake uses a 10nm SuperFin process, essentially a new name for the 10nm+ process. Let’s hope Intel continues to stop adding “+” to the end of things for good: 14nm++++ just looks ridiculous.