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Intel Unveils 10th-Generation 'Comet Lake' Chips With Speeds Over 5GHz

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Intel at CES shared details on its upcoming 10th-generation 45W "Comet Lake" chips, which could be slated for future 16-inch MacBook Pro models.

As highlighted by AnandTech, the new 10th-generation chips will be built on the 14++nm architecture and will reach higher than ever speeds. The Core i7 chips will hit 5GHz speeds, while the Core i9 models will exceed 5GHz.

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Intel hasn't shared additional details on the chips yet, but AnandTech speculates that Intel will introduce Turbo Boost Max 3.0 and Velocity Boost technology to the chips.

There are already a few manufacturers such as Acer and Lenovo that have announced support for the new 45W chips, and Intel believes the hardware will be coming to the market soon, so these may be the chips Apple will use in a 2020 16-inch MacBook Pro refresh.

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I just hope and pray Apple stays with Intel chips. ARM hardware is great for phones and tablets, power efficiency and light tasks, but they simply do not perform the same or sustain peak computing for as long. As a gamer and Engineer who does a lot of simulation and uses taxing design software on the CPU/GPU ARM devices are not for me.
 
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Intel at CES shared details on its upcoming 10th-generation 45W "Comet Lake" chips, which could be slated for future 16-inch MacBook Pro models.

As highlighted by AnandTech, the new 10th-generation chips will be built on the 14++nm architecture and will reach higher than ever speeds. The Core i7 chips will hit 5GHz speeds, while the Core i9 models will exceed 5GHz.

intelcometlakechips.jpg

Intel hasn't shared additional details on the chips yet, but AnandTech speculates that Intel will introduce Turbo Boost Max 3.0 and Velocity Boost technology to the chips.

There are already a few manufacturers such as Acer and Lenovo that have announced support for the new 45W chips, and Intel believes the hardware will be coming to the market soon, so these may be the chips Apple will use in a 2020 16-inch MacBook Pro refresh.

Article Link: Intel Unveils 10th-Generation 'Comet Lake' Chips With Speeds Over 5GHz
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would these be suitable for Mac mini? trying to figure out if we are going to see new chips anytime soon
 
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Somehow these will be weak in comparison to AMD, who are hitting this whole chip thing out of the park.
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These are mobile chips. AMD is not ahead of Intel on the mobile side of things. What will be interesting is to see how the non-mobile Intel processors compare to AMD's desktop offerings.
 
I just hope the secondary chip sets are good and coming sooner rather than later. i.e. so we can get 802.11ax wifi, etc.

I’d love a MBP with modern chipset and a display with iPad quality refresh rate. (Do I dare dream of slot for SSD card too?)

After years of waiting, I’d love to buy a new Apple laptop. Steps have been made in the right direction, but they are still unnessarily compromised devices.
 
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AustinIllini said:
Somehow these will be weak in comparison to AMD, who are hitting this whole chip thing out of the park.

Jesus, still with the 14nm processor? Yikes.
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I think AMD is already on 7nm, at least partially. Yes, they are kicking Intel's backside down the block. If you're building a PC, the wise choice at the moment is pretty much AMD across the board. Even their server chips are better and way faster than the Mac Pro for a fraction of the price. I wish Apple would move to AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. They've got it completely backwards now.
 
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which could be slated for future 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
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Assuming, of course, that they ever ship.
Intel believes the hardware will be coming to the market soon
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Of course they do :) Thing is, though, they could potentially slip on this by YEARS and still perform better in a laptop than AMD.

Which is why the ARM rumor carries so much weight.
 
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GeoStructural said:
I just hope and pray Apple stays with Intel chips. ARM hardware is great for phones and tablets, power efficiency and light tasks, but they simply do not perform the same or sustain peak computing for as long. As a gamer and Engineer who does a lot of simulation and uses taxing design software on the CPU/GPU ARM devices are not for me.
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Praying for the opposite. Anyone who’s held a lightweight 2018 iPad Pro in their hand as it coolly, fanlessly renders out 4K video files in seconds knows what’s coming with ARM. Curious to see how they handle software but can’t wait.
 
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GeoStructural said:
I just hope and pray Apple stays with Intel chips. ARM hardware is great for phones and tablets, power efficiency and light tasks, but they simply do not perform the same or sustain peak computing for as long. As a gamer and Engineer who does a lot of simulation and uses taxing design software on the CPU/GPU ARM devices are not for me.
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this sounds patently incorrect as arm is just an architecture and the insane performance on iPad Pro and iPhone 11 surpass most of apple’s intel laptop line
 
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GeoStructural said:
ARM hardware is great for phones and tablets, power efficiency and light tasks, but they simply do not perform the same or sustain peak computing for as long.
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How do you know whether a new ARM chip with a big heat sink in a system with multiple fans (as iMacs and Mac Pros have) can or can't sustain peak performance? AMD uses a TSMC process, and produces server chiplet packages that can sustain massive peak loads (with proper cooling). No reason Apple can't send its new designs thru that same fab process.
 
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GeoStructural said:
I just hope and pray Apple stays with Intel chips. ARM hardware is great for phones and tablets, power efficiency and light tasks, but they simply do not perform the same or sustain peak computing for as long. As a gamer and Engineer who does a lot of simulation and uses taxing design software on the CPU/GPU ARM devices are not for me.
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So can you explain what microarchitectural design choices the ARM architecture has that prevents it from "performing the same or sustaining peak computing for long"?

Can you explain how ARM is worse than an 16-bit architecture from 41 years ago?
 
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Shame it's got no integrated Thunderbolt 3, will have to wait until 2022 for the Intel-H series 10nm I expect :(
 
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Interesting that, unlike rumored, this doesn't mention going to ten cores. Either they aren't revealing that yet, or they've decided against it?
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It was stated by Intel for up to 8 cores.

AustinIllini said:
Somehow these will be weak in comparison to AMD, who are hitting this whole chip thing out of the park.

Jesus, still with the 14nm processor? Yikes.
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Yet still performing extremely well. I think people should focus less on the marketing terms, Intel 14nm is different to TSMC. Would we like to see Intel go to a lower nanometer technology, yes. Will it significantly change everything in terms of performance, no.
 
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back to the clock speed race?
Clearly, Intel is behind on the node length (14 vs 7 which is really more like 14 vs 10), and they have focused on backend improvements which will pay off in the future when we near the end of the node length race (5nm ... 3 ... there is a physical end to this)
 
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