• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Discussion Intel’s Unified Core

Page 14 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Copper Shark is the successor to Arctic Wolf/Golden Eagle made by the E-core team at the end of the day. Technically it’s a larger E-core than Golden Eagle. The point is that in TTL it acts as the P-core. By calling it an E-core, he unintentionally confirms it is Intel's unified core - something he might be unaware of. Internally, Intel might not even use the term 'unified' on their roadmaps.
I don't follow your logic. Jaykihn's stance is that Golden Eagle is a p-core in the cove lineage and Copper Shark is an e-core. If he's wrong about Copper Shark being an e-core, wouldn't it make more sense to assume that ALL of his info is bad?


1777399150801.png

What source do we have that Copper Shark is the p-core anyways? I haven't seen anything in this thread that says that.
 
I don't follow your logic. Jaykihn's stance is that Golden Eagle is a p-core in the cove lineage and Copper Shark is an e-core. If he's wrong about Copper Shark being an e-core, wouldn't it make more sense to assume that ALL of his info is bad?



What source do we have that Copper Shark is the p-core anyways? I haven't seen anything in this thread that says that.


Golden Eagle is not a P-core, it's an E-core made for Razor Lake. Where did he say Golden Eagle is a P-core?
 
Golden Eagle is not a P-core, it's an E-core made for Razor Lake. Where did he say Golden Eagle is a P-core?
Here he said that Golden Eagle and Copper Shark are the two architectures in Titan Lake.

Here he said that Copper Shark is an e-core.

By process of elimination, that means that Golden Eagle is the p-core.
 
I mean, it's technically possible to use a core that's descended from the E-core lineage in the place of a P-core in a product, so long as it is capable of the needed performance. They can just optimize the layout for frequency instead of density and add buffer logic to raise the clocks, and, assuming that they have the needed instruction throughput, it'll likely outdo the cove cores in ST performance. They can also have a pure E-core that's density optimized on the same chip. BOTH of those things can be true WITHOUT either core being the product that is rumored as Unified core.
 
to use a core that's descended from the E-core lineage in the place of a P-core in a product, so long as it is capable of the needed performance. They can just optimize the layout for frequency instead of density and add buffer logic to raise the clocks

They can also have a pure E-core that's density optimized on the same chip.

BOTH of those things can be true WITHOUT either core being the product that is rumored as Unified core.

I guess I don't think I understand what Unified Core is, because I thought this plan was Unified Core.
 
If TTL is indeed mobile only with no desktop version this means copper shark wasn't fast enough to surpass RZL in peak ST performance.
It's more of a timeline issue than a core issue cause Titan is later than Razer Lake.
This is a good point. Panther lake and meteor lake has poor cpu uplifts
Panther Lake CPU uplift is fine tbh cause there are barely core change what's not fine is Lion Cove itself should have been more.
 
You skipped my point lol the base core for cougar aka lion should have been more than what it is. Intel has used a old core to derisk theirs process since like nearly 2010?
You know well enough that PTL has no real CPU updates because Panther Cove fell behind schedule.
C'mon.
 
Area classifications and lineages are prone to confusion through the game of rumor telephone.
Probably a waste of time to try to figure that out before someone posts core structures.
 
that being said most recently most of the mobile only generations have been focused on efficiency.

Titan Lake could be the next major step in x86 battery life improvements.

He also said that Razor and Nova lake should last till 2030 meaning no updates on desktop till 2030.

Mobile could get Titan Lake in 2028, Serpent Lake and in 2030 Hammer Lake is 2nd gen unified core on desktop
 
that being said most recently most of the mobile only generations have been focused on efficiency.

Titan Lake could be the next major step in x86 battery life improvements.

He also said that Razor and Nova lake should last till 2030 meaning no updates on desktop till 2030.

Mobile could get Titan Lake in 2028, Serpent Lake and in 2030 Hammer Lake is 2nd gen unified core on desktop
TTL is 2029 and probably.
Also Intel isn't really focused on 'efficiency', they just can't deliver on 1t CAGR.
That's why UC to begin with.
 
that being said most recently most of the mobile only generations have been focused on efficiency.

Titan Lake could be the next major step in x86 battery life improvements.

He also said that Razor and Nova lake should last till 2030 meaning no updates on desktop till 2030.

Mobile could get Titan Lake in 2028, Serpent Lake and in 2030 Hammer Lake is 2nd gen unified core on desktop
Titan Lake might also be the first 14A product. Intel might not be confident the process can reach desktop clocks on its first iteration.
 
Copper Shark is the successor to Arctic Wolf/Golden Eagle made by the E-core team at the end of the day. Technically it’s a larger E-core than Golden Eagle. The point is that in TTL it acts as the P-core. By calling it an E-core, he unintentionally confirms it is Intel's unified core - something he might be unaware of. Internally, Intel might not even use the term 'unified' on their roadmaps.
I don't think that's implied or likely. He would not call it E-Core for nothing. There is a P-Core but it's not known what's its codename (could well be a refresh of Griffin Cove as he proposed). The following was an answer to a question on what's the P-Core in Titan Lake called, IIRC (the question got deleted but I think it was about TTL - the only other thing it could be about was Serpent Lake anyway):

What could he possibly mean if he doesn't mean that golden eagle is the p-core?

I don't follow your logic. Jaykihn's stance is that Golden Eagle is a p-core
I don't think he said that either. As I said earlier, we were likely misunderstanding that "copper shark and golden eagle exist" tweet when we assumed it implies those two are a pair of (p&e) cores within a single product. Either they are two E-core iterations or one is on a different process for example or part of a refresh which prompted Intel to give it another codename.
So he didn't say Golden Eagle is a P-Core. This is the important thing to note.
Indeed...

If TTL is indeed mobile only with no desktop version this means copper shark wasn't fast enough to surpass RZL in peak ST performance.
Not necessarily - it's likely that the (Intel?) process node Titan Lake is gonna use that is to blame - or the core count, basically same as with Panther Lake - Titan Lake is likely a repeat of that. (I expect both the processors to have the same P-Core though).

It's more of a timeline issue than a core issue cause Titan is later than Razer Lake.

Panther Lake CPU uplift is fine tbh cause there are barely core change what's not fine is Lion Cove itself should have been more.
From how I understand it's not that Razer Lake and Titan Lake are sisters in the same generation. Razer Lake is N generation (Core Ultra 500 likely) and Titan Lake is n+1 generation (Core Ultra 600 likely). However, TTL doesn't cover the whole portfolio, exactly in the same way as Panther Lake which lacks HX parts for example. So Intel will have to keep Razer Lake around for a second round as a substitute (perhaps in the form of a refresh) in paralel to replacing part of its lineup with TTL. Likely again in the HX segment (and desktop).
 
Last edited:
Back
Top