Maybe it's engineering samples but these results look awful. I'm not sure why Intel is even bothering releasing them unless they have more HW fixes against a
long list of vulnerabilities.
The Comet Lake U parts have slightly higher Turbo compared to Whiskeylake so those are probably early samples.
There are zero cache changes so its still based on Skylake.
Oh and BTW, that product brief has been out since Intel revealed Icelake at Computex. So its nothing new.
Weird. I have to wonder if Samsung would fab Rocket Lake's front end chiplet. If it was the CPU core you would think they would use 8 nm at the very least.
That doesn't mean they won't use Samsung's 8nm, or 7nm process. It's just saying Intel needs a replacement for their 14nm.
Its still very strange. Are they going to have shortage even with Apple no longer needing their modems? So their chipsets are taking that much of their production?
So the logic of using Samsung for Rocket Lake must be related to volume. They want something better than 14nm, but 10nm capacity is filled up by other chips.
@french toast Renoir is using GFX909, so its a variant of the Vega core. Being on 7nm still has opportunities for big gains though.