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guys I want you to sit down with a good drink because intel has announced a bunch of brand new processors and they're codenamed whiskey Lake now you don't have to pour yourself a glass of booze and take a shot every time when I say whiskey so just sit back and relax and this video is definitely gonna be a lot more informative for you especially if you're in the market for a back to school PC so the new whiskey light CPUs are particularly geared towards the mobile notebook space and what these new CPUs can bring to the table could just potentially take the notebook technology just one step into the future it's tough it's a small step but nonetheless let's get into the details now we want to make this video to give you guys a rough idea of where these current whiskey Lake CPUs line and current Intel Schlampe and make sure you understand what exactly you're looking for because if you thought that notebook or purchasing in notebook was confusing before well it's gonna get even worse because Intel will be offering more than 20 different processors at the same time and I think that's just a bit ridiculous and I'm not kidding so let's start things off by talking about where whiskey Lake fits into the larger notebook product stack so that you guys can get a sense of what we're dealing with and remember every one of these new processors are considered to be a generation and are based off intel's original 14 nanometer skylake microarchitecture a few months ago we covered intel's high-end copulating mobile processors that were replacing most of these 7th generation cabling cpus basically these consisted of 12 eight and four threaded products for higher-end and slightly thicker notebooks that favored performance over all day battery life they all had TDP is ranging from 25 watts to 45 watts and used Intel's latest generation architecture basically processors based on coffee Lake promised better overall performance in multi-threaded workloads and higher clock speeds than kV Lake we actually saw that with our launch day coverage on desktop parts as well these processors were used in gaming laptops like the eurocom q5 and the gigabyte Aero 15 X we looked at a while back and in those cases a coffee like mobile CPU was paired up with a high-end discreet graphics card to provide an awesome gaming and creativity platform I actually still use my gigabyte arrow 15x4 trips like CES and Computex because with that Intel CPU paired with the discrete graphics card for in this case it's the gtx 1070 max-q you're looking at an awesome mobile powerhouse and with the recent update to Adobe Premiere taking advantage of hardware acceleration it really renders videos just as fast in fact faster than some of the desktop systems and I've encountered in the past alright so here's where things get a little bit more confusing in the last year Intel also released a range of lower processors for thin and light notebooks with the cable 8r architecture the art here stands for refresh so while there are some improvements over the original discontinued cable a chips the broader revisions in coffee lake haven't made their way into these CPUs from a micro architectural standpoint think of cable a car as a bridge between cabling and coffee lik it's not really one or the other all of these processors from the i7 all the way down to the i3 are carried with the core you brining which means they use a lower voltage to improve battery life and lower temperatures that also means giving users much less performance than coffee lake based core H CPUs but an ultralight notebooks like the LG Graham so portability is more important than record benchmark numbers I also can't forget to mention the chord G series which includes higher wattage quad-core 8 threaded CPUs alongside AMD bigger graphics but those plaques are beyond the scope for this video since they're mostly focused on other non notebook markets now at this point though you can actually start to see where problems and mistaken identity start because there are a whole lot of processors on this page already while the core H lineup is pretty defined with CPUs that have 45 watt TDP s and offers some impressive stats there is a core u series here as well though unlike the cable 8r parts they still have a TDP of 28 watts and use Intel's upgraded iris plus integrated graphics all of that and they still use very very similar names for example the IEEE 78550 U is a fork or eight threaded kb like our cpu with the TDP of just 15 watts meanwhile the i7 8559 you also has eight threads but is a very different animal the only way someone can tell a difference is one by the single number and trust me you guys aren't the only ones going a bit crazy with all of this but there's a good reason why I've taken all this time to explain what looks like Intel's homemade version of an alphabet soup that's because Intel it's gonna be parachuting whiskey Lake processors right smack into their KB Lake our core u product stack now before you ask no they aren't planning to replace any of the existing CPUs with whiskey Lake that's mostly because they are yet another evolution of KB Lake with some additional features rather than based off coffee like enhancements let's zoom into these sort of new CPUs to see what's up there will be three new processors here and they're baseline capabilities are actually rather impressive by using yet another refinement to their 40 nanometer manufacturing process Intel has been able to increase boost clocks by a pretty big amount in some cases supposedly performance is up versus cable HTP use by about 10% which has happened without Associated loss in efficiency or heat output other than that baseline specifications are pretty much identical but there are some interesting things going on behind the scenes the more interesting addition in my opinion is the long-awaited replacement for intel's original cabling core why series these are ultra low wattage cpus that have two cores along with four threads all boasting an insanely low TDP of just 5 watts expect to see these inconvertible tablets and other similar devices that need a huge battery life but don't have the space or cooling necessary for the 15 watt new series now according to the information that intel has sent us whiskey lake processors are optimized for connectivity and yeah I know that sounds like a pretty broad marketing term that's all fluff and won't have any meaning in real life but there are a few things that could change that opinion perhaps the most important inclusion is a suite of new power optimizing features that should lead to better battery life than cable a car Intel claims some of these systems will run for more than 16 hours while playing the local 1080p video but I'll need to test that for myself before taking it as a reality much of whisky lakes evolution takes place within its platform controller hub or PCH Intel is taking a page from their Gemini Lake playbook by including a CMV I integrated connectivity module called pulser into the PCH this allows for integrated 160 megahertz gigabit Wi-Fi compatibility there's also a new ultra low power quad-core audio DSP for broader compatibility with voice control digital assistants like Microsoft Cortana and Amazon Alexa for example with integrated Cortana and Alexa support you can now be on the road working on a presentation and without missing a beat verbally ask Alexa what the status of your home alarm system is that DSP is so low powering so it can always stay on when your system is hibernating you can then have the system wake up by just talking to it and yes I know that sounds a bit weird but I know I'm sure there will be other uses for this feature as well there are a few repeats here too Thunderbolt 3 isn't directly integrated into the PC age and no book manufacturers will need to add an expensive Alpine rich chipset for compatibility of course octane support makes that come back to and while we couldn't find great uses for it on the desktop platform this technology will come in handy for notebook users so how will users be able to determine whether or not if a notebook that they buy would feature one of these new processors well Intel is actually hoping to kick off a customer education campaign in September and October and I have no idea what that means and what are the details but it looks like there is or there has to be a lot more information for customers to digest because my brain certainly had a lot of time and a tough time just processing all of these new information but I guess and I hope this video sort of eased that out hopefully Intel's partners are also supposed to add this logo to their packaging and other materials I'm having a bit of trouble with this to the optimize for productivity really looks like a last-minute addition so hopefully they'll have something of a bit more refined ones systems launched speaking of new systems some of the first that will have whiskey Lake processors are Dells upcoming Inspiron 7000 and 5000 series 2 and once they have ultra slim aluminum frames nearly 16 hour battery life compatibility with Amazon's Alexa and octane support it seems like this could be a perfect fit for enhanced connectivity options offered by Intel's evolved a platform and personally I've never found a use for convertible notebooks but with more and more features but pad into them I'm sure some people will find these useful so there you guys have it I know I spent a lot of time sitting at the stage explaining to you you know what whisky Lake what these new aesthetic CPAs are because you know Intel's current lineup is super massive and I'm hoping that this video sort of helped ease that and helped you process some of this new information a place that's what I hope and you can definitely let me know in the comments down below but like I said throughout this video I think Intel's current notebook lineup is way too confusing for a lot of people especially because of their sensible or I guess their meaningless naming scheme with their existing model parts and all that kind of stuff it just doesn't make any sense I feel like you know offering 20 or 20 or more processors at the same time in the notebook space just make customers it just it just makes it difficult for customers to go on and pick and choose what they really need what's also obvious is that Intel is really struggling to remain relevant and launch new technologies there have been long delays with their upcoming 10 nanometer cannon Lake architecture and that means features that would normally be rolled into larger revisions are being drip fed to users in minor changes like those in whiskey lake and even Kaiba Lake are CPUs and to make matters even worse slightly older parts can't be discontinued because many of the partners have only just begun implementing the cable ik are you serious processors into their new notebook designs so with all this being said I'm really excited to see what whiskey lake has lined up for the future and I'm really curious to test out these new CPUs and see what they offer for the average consumer I'm more particularly interested in testing the battery life because you know if you can have a notebook that can last for a day perhaps Indiana half with just casual use that will be kind of fantastic and for someone like you know perhaps a student who just takes notes for classes I think it's certainly gonna be a welcoming addition but again Intel offering 20 more processors and notebooks these days is just it's insane so I want to hear your thoughts on Intel's new whiskey lake offerings what do you guys think about it and of course left Lea let me know what you guys think about the codename whiskey lake because it just it to me it just sounds like until just having fun naming all of these things with different things because we have coffee lake now we have whiskey lake so what's next I have no idea anyways I mean but with 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