Intel launches Wildcat Lake as Core Series 3 for value laptops and edge systems — six consumer SKUs built on 18A promise ‘all-day’ battery life

Intel launches Wildcat Lake as Core Series 3 for value laptops and edge systems — six consumer SKUs built on 18A promise 'all-day' battery life

Among the first shipping designs are the Ace Aspire Go 14/15/16, HP Omnibook 5 14-inch, and the MSI Modern 14S/16S. Asus Vivobook 14/15/17 systems are expected to follow at some point this quarter, with ExpertBook B3/B5/P3 models in the second half of the year. Lenovo (ThinkBook, ThinkPad E, IdeaPad Slim 3i/5i, IdeaCentre AIO 3i), Dell, Samsung's Galaxy Book 6, and Positivo are “coming soon,” per Intel.

Josh Newman, general manager and vice president of Consumer PC at Intel's Client Computing Group, said the family targets students, small businesses, and edge deployments on a typical five-year upgrade cycle, with Intel citing up to 47% higher single-thread performance versus a 2020-era Core i7-1185G7 .

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usertests There's not much we didn't learn from the last few weeks of leaks. Except the 4 MiB memory side cache, which could be important to keeping LPEs from being dog slow, but I'm not that familiar with it and I recall previous implementations of this cache were underwhelming. Goofy benchmarks with too much AI focus and no comparisons to Alder Lake-N. Intel Core 7 150U is Alder Lake-U Refresh Refresh with 2+8 cores. Wildcat Lake should do pretty well in most ways against the cheapest ADL-U 2+4 chips. But it may end up as a better laptop choice than full ADL-U 2+8 from the single-thread and efficiency improvements. I hope the market largely ignores the Core 3 304 with its single graphics core. Instead of pushing that one as the new N100. No info about a configurable TDP in the articles I looked at. But it could be 10 Watts. Reply

IntelUser2000 usertests said: There's not much we didn't learn from the last few weeks of leaks. Except the 4 MiB memory side cache, which could be important to keeping LPEs from being dog slow, but I'm not that familiar with it and I recall previous implementations of this cache were underwhelming. Lunarlake's memory side cache was dog slow. It was only faster than system memory. Pantherlake's LPEs are much better. I'm not sure if that's due to the memory side cache improving or other things. It was less than 5% difference from regular E cores on the ring bus, whereas Lunarlake LPE was 15-20%. Combined with the small improvements in Darkmont, LPEs are 20% faster per clock in Pantherlake generation. Pantherlake has an improved memory controller with lower latency plus a memory compression capability. Pretty sure all of them helps the LPE immensely. usertests said: No info about a configurable TDP in the articles I looked at. But it could be 10 Watts. They are much more granular than they say in the sheets. Pantherlake's 12 Xe models didn't show SO-DIMM support, yet it does. For example we users can download throttlestop and adjust power settings in fine granularity. Manufacturers can do that in firmware(UEFI). It's a two-chip device that doesn't use Foveros, instead uses traditional organic interposers with UCI as a connection, so it should be cheap to make. The presentation says it allows cheaper 6-layer motherboard as well. Reply

User of Computers usertests said: I hope the market largely ignores the Core 3 304 with its single graphics core. Instead of pushing that one as the new N100. N100 was half the core count of the rest of ADL-N, whereas this entire lineup (except the aforementioned core 3) has the same number of cores. Thus, no reason not to have options up to the core 7 imo. Reply

User of Computers IntelUser2000 said: It's a two-chip device that doesn't use Foveros, instead uses traditional organic interposers with UCI as a connection, so it should be cheap to make. The presentation says it allows cheaper 6-layer motherboard as well. WCL is actually a really neat tech demo for this reason entirely: it's the first commercial, widely shipped part from any manufacturer to use UCIe (I believe Ian quoted around 40 million units by the end of this year). Reply

usertests User of Computers said: N100 was half the core count of the rest of ADL-N, whereas this entire lineup (except the aforementioned core 3) has the same number of cores. Thus, no reason not to have options up to the core 7 imo. If the Intel Core 3 304 is as rare as the dual-core Intel Processor N50, and virtually all WCL laptops, mini PCs, and SBCs are using the Core 5 315 at a minimum, I'll be happy. Losing a P-core would be bad, but the 1 Xe core graphics could be the bigger loss. A CrossMark result for a "Core 3 310" was spotted, but it didn't make it into this announcement. Reply

bit_user So many SKUs, yet so few apparent differences! Reply

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