OCTOBER 2020 PCWorld 13Intel Tiger Lake laptops will begin
shipping in October
Consumers will still have to wait a bit. BY MARK HACHMANL
aptops and notebook PCs using
Intel’s first Tiger Lake chips will begin
shipping in October, an Intel
representative confirmed in early
September.
Up to that announcement, Intel had been
cagey, stating that the first laptops using its
new Tiger Lake chips (see page 7) would be
available this fall in time for the holiday
season. Its latest presentation also clarified a
fact that was left out of its press release: Twoof the nine new Tiger Lake chips, the Core
i3-1125G4 and Core i3-1120G4, won’t be
available until 2021. Some observers
grumbled that Intel should have waited to
launch Tiger Lake until PC makers were ready
to ship.
At the presentation, though, Intel
somewhat nailed down the initial shipping
date to October. That means we have to wait
a little longer before reviewers and
consumers begin putting Intel’s boatload ofIMAGE: MSI