Lenovo leak expects 9th generation Intel Core processors

INTEL NINTH GEN According to the new specifications of the Lenovo Ideapad S530, the central processors could soon be the subject of a new wave of laptops.

While Intel has revealed desktop variants of its ninth-generation Core processors, which are actually a refresh of the Coffee Lake S architecture present in the eighth-generation processors, it has not changed. not yet revealed the details of the variants of laptops.

This is probably due to the fact that eight-generation processors still use new laptops, the Surface Laptop 2, for example.

But thanks to a data sheet showing the processor configurations of the Lenovo Ideapad S530, spotted by WCCFTech, we know that there will be ninth-generation variants of the current range of core chips for laptops.

They will include the Core i7-9550U, Core i5-9250U and Core i3-9130U. They are expected to be more efficient and energy efficient than eighth generation chips; the Core i7 variant is expected to absorb around 10-15W.

But Lenovo has not revealed anything concrete in terms of thermal design power, clock speeds or other chip specifications.

Interestingly and confusingly, Lenovo ranked the ninth iteration of mobile Core processors in the eighth generation, although Intel has qualified ninth-generation equivalent desktops. This is an error, a formatting error, or ways to show that chips such as the Core i7-9550U still use the same underlying 14nm ++ process node as the generation chips previous, instead of a totally new architecture.

A new architecture is expected from Intel once its 10nm process is ready for large scale chip production. But it's been a long time and we do not know when we can expect to see such slices of silicon.

The new Core chips for laptops do not seem to stir the imagination of people whose laptops switch to eighth-generation Core processors. But for those looking for a new laptop as an upgrade over an aging machine, the ninth-ninth-ninth processors are to watch. μ