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I was under the impression the Ice Lake is the first new architecture since Skylake. Cannon Lake was supposed to be the 10nm die shrink of Skylake, no?

The A12X is pretty exciting, but I badly want to know how it stacks up against Ice Lake, and we should be able to do that by now. The Skylake architecture is so old that it's not even fair to compare it to the A12X. Let's hope Intel can ship Ice Lake soon...

Thank you! I also noticed it's mentioned on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Lake_(microarchitecture) I'm really surprised Intel didn't advertise this more, it's not insignificant on a laptop, every little bit helps

I'm having trouble finding what process Whiskey Lake PCH is made on, can anyone chime in here?

Ah I didn't know that, thank you! But surely they also directly measure the heat output of chips? What are those measurements known as?

Forgive me if this question is just wrong, I'm just curious and was hoping someone could help explain. With the performance of so many devices (smartphones and tablets) largely being dictated/bottlenecked by its thermal capacity (the larger the device, the more heat it can handle)...

The Surface 3 was a 'sealed' fanless tablet, like a phone or an iPad, but it had an Atom chip. The Surface Pro 4 had a fanless Core m3 model, but there was venting all around the perimeter of the device (not exactly waterproof haha) and people rightly pointed out that iPads don't have vents at...

I thought a 'true', full fix was not possible with this architecture

Everyone is so focused on performance per watt and performance per dollar but, if I'm not mistaken, next year AMD will have hardware fixes for Spectre* and that seems like a big factor in the decision making. There's always new variants being found and that has to be a huge pain for companies...

Now that there are real Windows 10 devices coming out powered by Snapdragons, I wonder if QSync (Qualcomms version of adaptive sync) works on Windows? That could make a real difference in these devices when it comes to gaming. Does anyone know?

Intel chipsets are always made on the previous node, but for Whiskey Lake laptops, will they be made on the 14nm process? Some rumors that this is the case and I would hope so because they need as much help as they can get for Whiskey Lake. Also, how much of a difference would this make on a laptop?

Is this real? You can actually buy one?

You can actually do some light gaming with the newest integrated graphics from Intel (obviously not newer titles with high quality settings) , but does Intel have their own G-Sync/FreeSync tech coming? Also, wouldn't it help slightly with normal use (not gaming)?

Intel must design their chips to work on Windows, Mac and Linux. That's quite a lot of significantly different operating systems and surely can be a bit limiting and compromising. Once Intel no longer has to consider macOS in their designs, will there be some small improvements and 'wins' for...

I don't think Windows Central is lying or wrong, but of course I would like to see Anandtech do their own tests too. And while they're at it, they should test the Acer Switch Alpha 12 which is apparently the first fanless i5 device, it would be interesting to see how it compares to the 2017...