Intel's Whiskey Lake Notebook Chips Will Offer Big Turbo Boosts To Get You To Upgrade
PCWorld|September 2018

If the leaked information is correct, there will be just the one key difference between today’s Kaby Lake-R chips and Intel’s Whiskey Lake. BY MARK HACHMAN

Mark Hachman
Intel's Whiskey Lake Notebook Chips Will Offer Big Turbo Boosts To Get You To Upgrade

While motherboard companies continue to outdo themselves releasing data on Intel’s upcoming 9000-series processors, HP has accidentally disclosed details regarding another of Intel’s upcoming chips: its “Whiskey Lake” notebook processors.

As disclosed by Anandtech (go.pcworld. com/15ww), the Whiskey Lake-U processors aren’t that different from the existing Kaby Lake-R chips that they’ll replace. In fact, the base clock speeds for the three chips outed by HP are essentially identical with the existing Kaby Lake-R chips. What Intel has done, however, is offer significantly higher turbo speeds as a way of differentiating the two families.

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