FEBRUARY 2020 PCWorld 21It’s not clear whether Tiger Lake will be a 10th- or 11th-gen part, but at least we know it’s next on the road
map. A new “Thunderbolt 4” is apparently one of the I/O features.
display or tablet, or a dual-screen device, and
it’s a lot bigger than Lenovo’s offering.
Bryant also pledged 5G support for PCs,
with a partnership with Mediatek (go.
pcworld.com/inmd), with samples available
in the third quarter of 2020. Originally, Intel
had claimed that the partnership wouldn’t
yield fruit until 2021.
TIGER LAKE AND DG1
Bryant then switched gears to the
silicon inside the devices
themselves, with an emphasis on
AI. Adobe’s Jason Levine appeared
briefly and entertainingly to show
the ability to pull out objects from
the background within Adobe
Photoshop or Adobe’s Sensei
app, a feature that Intel
emphasized within Ice Lake and
other 10th-gen chips.
Intel’s 10th-gen parts have been
split between Comet Lake and Ice
Lake, but the next code word to pay
attention to is Tiger Lake. That chip, reportedly
a 10nm offering, popped up on road maps in
mid-2019 (go.pcworld.com/rdmp), and is
“coming soon” to laptops, according to a
promotional video Intel played.
It’s not clear what performance
advantages Tiger Lake will offer, and over
which chips. Bryant appeared to claim thatIntel’s Chris Walker shows “Horseshoe Bend,” the company’s
prototype of a 17-inch foldable PC.