Intel Announces 11th-Generation Tiger Lake Chips as Apple Plans Transition to Arm-Based Apple Silicon

[MacRumors]

Intel today announced the launch of its new 11th-generation Tiger Lake chips that are designed for use in laptops. The new chips included integrated Xe graphics, Thunderbolt 4, USB 4, PCIe Gen 4, and WiFi 6 support.

Intel is calling the Tiger Lake chips, which are built on a 10-nanometer "SuperFin" process, the world's best processor for thin and light laptops. Tiger Lake chips offer significant performance and efficiency gains over the prior-generation Ice Lake chips.

The new chips offer 20 percent better CPU performance than Ice Lake chips, according to Intel. The integrated Iris Xe graphics are better than 90 percent of all discrete notebook GPUs sold last year and offer up to twice the graphics performance along with 5x better artificial intelligence performance.

There are nine new SKUs across Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 with clock speeds up to 4.8GHz.

Intel says that the new Tiger Lake CPUs will be in more than 50 laptops coming this fall and named a number of partners such as Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, but Apple was not among them. Since the Tiger Lake chips are for lower power laptops and max out at 28W, it is unlikely Apple will ever use them.

Apple is transitioning to Arm-based Apple Silicon chips beginning this year, and rumors have indicated that the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air will be some of the first machines to get Apple Silicon chips.

If the next-generation MacBook Air adopts Apple Silicon, there will be no need for Apple to adopt Tiger Lake chips.

Article Link: Intel Announces 11th-Generation Tiger Lake Chips as Apple Plans Transition to Arm-Based Apple Silicon

 

[dannyyankou]

And this will probably be the last of these types of articles on Macrumors. RIP.

 

[realeric]

Hopefully Apple stay with Intel chips.

 

[breather]

50 laptops doesn’t sound like much...

 

[kstotlani]

Coming in 2030?

 

[0128672]

If the next-generation MacBook Air adopts Apple Silicon, there will be no need for Apple to adopt Tiger Lake chips.

That's an if ...?

 

[ghanwani]

The performance gains don't look all that impressive.

 

[madmin]

Too little, too lake

 

[nikhsub1]

Please give me a 16" MBP with this.

 

[Spock]

It’s still very possible these chips make it into a future MacBook Pro. If Apple is planning on a two year transition, they won’t let the machines not ready for a Apple Silicon chip go stagnant.

 

[FishyFish]

Boom, that's it, Apple Silicon is dead. Next step: Apple apologizes and prepares to put Tiger Lake 10nm with large cooling fans in next-gen iPads and iPhones.

 

[Cosmosent]

In the Business World, it's the software that matters, NOT the hardware !

Apple's custom Si Macs will very-likely establish a beachhead with Gamers & Hobbyists first !

What good is having a Mac that mostly runs iOS apps ?

Isn't that what an iPad is ?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Much better in performance. Wonder how Arm-Based Silicon chips will compete.

 

[gnasher729]

Hopefully Apple stay with Intel chips.

That train has long left the station. And while Apple's ARM implementation may not be as good as Intel's marketing claims, the actual chips will be beating Intel..

 

[dannyyankou]

Hopefully Apple stay with Intel chips.

Strongly disagree. There’s a reason no one is begging for Qualcomm chips in iPhones. Apple does an amazing job with custom silicon.

 

[AlexMaximus]

Too little, too late INTEL...

 

[neuropsychguy]

The performance gains don't look all that impressive.

I disagree. These look like great processors and might do well against AMD’s 4000 series, which are excellent. Intel is playing catch-up to AMD and these might just do it.

I’m looking forward to Apple’s offerings though. It’ll be interesting to see how they stack up with these new Intel chips and what AMD has out already.

 

[Freida]

ROFL! Where have you been past few years? Intel is done. AS is the future. Intel is not gonna be able to compete.

Hopefully Apple stay with Intel chips.

 

[PickUrPoison]

Please give me a 16" MBP with this.

Apple only uses the 45W CPUs in the 16”. These would have been for a 13” MBP or a MBA.

 

[dguisinger]

No mention at all yesterday of NVIDIA blowing the competition away with their new Ampere RTX 3000 series lineup, while Apple is about to transition to in-house graphics across the line.

I have no doubt Apple can compete on CPUs in the desktop space - but common, them dropping AMD graphics from Apple Silicon macs and not working with Nvidia due to a past feud is just going to cripple them in the graphics space. Even the new PS5 and Xbox Series X look pretty pathetic compared to these new chips.

 

[nvmls]

Bye Intel.

 

[cvj23]

You lost me at 10nm

 

[leman]

I hope that Tiger Lake will be available in the 13" Pro before it moves to Apple CPUs, would be a nice upgrade from Ice Lake.

The GPU improvements are really impressive, the CPU side initially seems underwhelming to me. The claimed performance improvements over Ice Lake are consistent with clock increases, so again no improvements in peak single-core throughput.

 

[dannyyankou]

Say what you want about Apple silicon, but it will encourage competition which is good.

 

[smulji]

The performance gains don't look all that impressive.

The CPU gains are not. The major gains are with the iGPU, plus TB4 support.