At its 2020 Architecture Day event, the chip maker claimed its 10-nanometer process technology has reached a new level, thanks to redesigned FinFet transistors. As a result, the upcoming Tiger Lake chips are poised to offer big gains on CPU processing and power efficiency.

在2020年建筑日活动上，这家芯片制造商声称其10纳米Craft.io技术已达到了新的水平，这要归功于重新设计的FinFet晶体管。 结果，即将面世的Tiger Lake芯片有望在CPU处理和功率效率方面带来巨大收益。

By Michael Kan

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No 7-nanometer process? No problem! Intel is hyping up the company’s upcoming “Tiger Lake” processors by claiming they’ll offer a generational leap in performance.

没有7纳米Craft.io？ 没问题！ 英特尔声称他们将提供性能上的跨越式增长，从而大肆宣传该公司即将推出的“ Tiger Lake”处理器。

The laptop-bound mobile processors won’t launch until Sept. 2. In the meantime, however, Intel is previewing advancements it has made to its 10nm manufacturing process. As revealed in an earnings call late last month, its 7nm technology has been delayed until late 2022 or early 2023.

笔记本电脑绑定的移动处理器要到9月2日才能发布。但是，与此同时，英特尔正在预览其10纳米制造Craft.io所取得的进步。 正如上月末的财报电话会议所显示的那样，其7 纳米技术已被推迟到2022年末或2023年初。

The holdup has been raising serious questions about how the chip maker will remain competitive with AMD, whose CPU fortunes have been rising over the past year with its successful launch of 7nm technology across desktop and laptop platforms. But according to Intel, even without the process-node bump, the 10nm Tiger Lake processors are poised to offer impressive performance gains akin to a “full-node transition.”

对于AMD来说，芯片制造商将如何保持竞争力一直是个严重问题。AMD在过去的一年中，成功地在台式机和笔记本电脑平台上推出了7nm技术，其CPU的地位一直在上升。 但是据英特尔称，即使没有过程节点的碰撞，10nm Tiger Lake处理器也有望提供类似于“全节点过渡”的令人印象深刻的性能提升。

在“ Willow Cove”中发现SuperFins (Spotting SuperFins in ‘Willow Cove’)

To pull this off, Intel said it redesigned the company’s FinFet transistors-the building blocks of modern PC microprocessors-to carry more electrical current through the channel and at a faster rate. The chip maker also improved the “MIM capacitor,” which stores the electrical charge, increasing its capacity by five times using the same footprint. Taking advantage of these architectural upgrades, the Tiger Lake chips can offer better performance and energy efficiency than last year’s 10nm “Ice Lake” chips.

为了实现这一目标，英特尔表示已重新设计了公司的FinFet晶体管(现代PC微处理器的基础)，以便以更快的速度通过通道传输更多的电流。 芯片制造商还改进了存储电荷的“ MIM电容器”，使用相同的占位面积使其容量增加了五倍。 利用这些架构升级，Tiger Lake芯片可以提供比去年的10nm“ Ice Lake”芯片更好的性能和能效。

“The combined power of these innovations enables us to deliver a dramatic process performance boost that makes it the largest single node enhancement in Intel history,” said Ruth Brain, the company’s director for interconnect technology, at a presentation from Intel’s “Architecture Day” event held earlier this week.

“这些创新的综合力量使我们能够显着提高Craft.io性能，使其成为英特尔历史上最大的单节点增强，”该公司互连技术总监Ruth Brain在英特尔“架构日”活动的演讲中表示。本周初举行。

The improvement is prompting the chipmaker to dub the new technology “10nm SuperFin.” In the Tiger Lake chips, Intel is using the manufacturing process to implement the “Willow Cove” CPU microarchitecture, which will deliver a “more than generational increase in CPU performance,” the company claimed in a statement.

这种进步促使芯片制造商将新技术称为“ 10nm SuperFin”。 该公司在一份声明中声称，在Tiger Lake芯片中，英特尔正在使用制造Craft.io来实现“ Willow Cove” CPU微体系结构，这将带来“ CPU性能的超过一代的提升”。

Compared with Ice Lake’s architecture, dubbed “Sunny Cove,” the new Willow Cove can produce higher clock speeds while drawing the same amount of power, according to Intel’s presentation to the press. Conversely, Willow Cove can reach the higher frequency speeds on Sunny Cove while using only half the voltage.

根据英特尔在新闻界的介绍，与被称为“阳光海湾”的Ice Lake架构相比，新型Willow Cove可以产生更高的时钟速度，同时消耗相同的电量。 相反，在仅使用一半电压的情况下，Willow Cove可以在Sunny Cove上达到更高的频率速度。

早期揭示：内存带宽 (One Early Reveal: Memory Bandwidth)

Another improvement is to Tiger Lake’s memory bandwidth, which can now scale up to 86GBps. The chips will also support RAM for DDR4–3200, LPDDR4X, and upcoming LPDDR5 technologies.

另一个改进是Tiger Lake的内存带宽，现在可以扩展到86GBps。 这些芯片还将支持用于DDR4–3200，LPDDR4X和即将推出的LPDDR5技术的RAM。

That all said, Intel didn’t reveal exact specs for the Willow Cove architecture or products based on it. The company is also refraining from providing performance benchmarks for the Tiger Lake processors until Sept. 2, when the company will hold an event to officially launch these new chips.

综上所述，英特尔没有透露Willow Cove架构或基于它的产品的确切规格。 该公司还避免在9月2日之前为Tiger Lake处理器提供性能基准，届时该公司将举行一次活动以正式发布这些新芯片。

Other enhancements to Tiger Lake include a more powerful integrated graphics solution, now called Intel Xe LP, which should enable you to play at least some AAA PC games at 1080p, without dialing down the graphics settings. The processors are also going to support faster AI-driven processing, as well as integrate support for Thunderbolt 4 connectivity.

Tiger Lake的其他增强功能包括更强大的集成图形解决方案，现在称为Intel Xe LP，该解决方案应使您能够至少以1080p播放AAA PC游戏，而无需降低图形设置。 处理器还将支持更快的AI驱动处理，并集成对Thunderbolt 4连接的支持。

Originally published at https://www.pcmag.com.

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