Intel officially announced 'Whiskey Lake' & 'Amber Lake' 8th generation CPU for mobile supporting Gigabit Wi-Fi & 4K, adopting 14 nm process as usual due to delay in miniaturization

Intel officially announced a new CPU for mobile that was known as the 8th generation codename " Whiskey Lake " & " Amber Lake ". Process miniaturization is not progressing slowly Intel has decided to sell new products of the "eighth generation" again.

Intel Launches Whiskey Lake And Amber Lake CPUs for Laptops
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-whiskey-lake-amber-lake, 37704.html

Intel Launches Whiskey Lake - U and Amber Lake - Y: New MacBook CPUs?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13275/intel-launches-whiskey-lake-amber-lake

Intel had announced Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake in COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2018 held in Taiwan in June 2018, but has introduced Whiskey Lake as the "U" series for notebook PCs of the 8th generation Core processor and Amber Lake We officially announced it as the "Y" series for the mobile terminal of the 8th generation Core processor, respectively.

Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake are both manufactured under the 14 nm process rule. The 8th generation Core processor for mobile is a product known as the code name "Kaby Lake Refresh" that adopts the 14 nm process as the refresh product (improved version) of the 7th generation Core processor "Kaby Lake" that appeared in 2016 was 2017 Although it was released in the year, Intel, which is struggling with the 10 nm process, introduced the product "Coffee Lake - U" as a mobile CPU in April 2018. Following that, we will also release 14nm process products this time, and the new and 8th generation Core processors such as Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake are in a condition to call it "Kaby Lake Refresh Refresh" as it were.

We can confirm the situation that Intel who has to take time with miniaturization technology is forced to introduce a lot of 8th generation Core processor in the following article.

Intel Announces "8th Generation Core Processor", 3 versions in the same generation and confusion is inevitable - GIGAZINE

The reason why Intel's new CPU can not be named as the 9th generation is due to delayed miniaturization, but in "8th generation Core U" (Whiskey Lake) and "8th generation Core Y" (Amber Lake), Kaby Lake We succeeded in suppressing the TDP to 15 W and 5 W respectively while using the same core as Refresh. In addition, Intel Wireless-AC 160 MHz Gigabit Wi-Fi controller is built in, enabling playback of streaming at 4 K resolution with laptop PC or tablet PC.

However, Whiskey Lake has adopted "UHD Graphics 620" for iGPU (built-in graphics) to suppress TDP or has been speckled out from "Iris Plus Graphics" of Coffee Lake-U.

So the latest SK series of the 8th generation Core processor and the SKU of the Y series are as follows. The U series highest "Core i7-8565U" is 4 cores / 8 threads, the base clock is 1.8 GHz and is 409 dollars (about 45,000 yen), the top of the Y series "Core i 7 - 8500 Y" is 2 cores / 4 Thread, base clock is expected to be 393 dollars (about 44,000 yen) at 1.5 GHz.

IFA 2018 to be held in Berlin, Germany from August 31, 2018, you can expect that many mobile notebook PCs and 2 in 1 employing Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake will appear.