Intel Interrupting its innovative processors from Lacfield, with the chip that Microsoft had planned to use in the surface of the neo-surface double screen tablet, instead of its end-of-life notice. Lakefield, announced in 2010, was the Intel attempt at a so-called hybrid chip, promising smaller and lower power processors for ultraportable, folding devices and other new form factors.
This meant using the 3D 3D stack of Feros, which builds chipsets like layer cakes. The result was a set of different nuclei, including 10 Nm Sunny Cove Cores for maximum performance and Tremont Core for more efficient tasks. The result, Intel affirmed, was a great reduction in energy consumption.
It was enough to draw the attention of Samsung, Lenovo and Microsoft, although the three had different intentions for Lacfield. The Samsung Galaxy S book announced in May 2020 was an ultraportable that operated the I5-L16G7 and Core I3-L13G4 core. ThinkPad X1 from Lenovo, meanwhile, was a tablet that folded the center of its flexible OLED touch screen.
Microsoft, as for Microsoft, looked at Lacfield for its neo surface. Announced next to the Duo Surface at the end of 2019, it was a 13-inch folding tablet that could be used as a huge digital book, or twisted to serve as a laptop with a slice of ADD keyboard -we. He would lead Windows 10x, Microsoft promised at the time.
However, the original 2020 window on the Neo surface has come and Microsoft has confirmed that it would spread 10x 10x windows in favor of Windows 11. Now, without the output date, the Microsoft unusual tablet finds that its processor is at the end of life. already.
Intel confirmed the news, reported first by Anandtech this week. In a product change notification published on July 6, 2021, he confirmed the support for the drop-out program of the two Lakefield processors is in progress. The final orders will be accepted until October 22; All orders will be shipped before April 29, 2022.
Where this leaves manufacturers with a difficult decision. Although they can always order Chips from Lekefield Core i3 and Core i5 – and always launch products using their use – Intel basically closes the door on fresh supplies. Given Intel itself granted that the Lakefield chip demand “offset to other Intel products’ ‘, it seems unlikely that we will see many new transformers.
Intel, meanwhile, now focuses on future hybrid chips such as Alder Lake. This should use the same combination of high performance and high efficiency cores, but use Golden Cove and Gracemont processors, respectively. There will be Intel Xe Graphics and Intel said previously it will be his best performance by Watt so far.
The commercial release of the Alder Lake in the basic generation fleas of 12h should take place at about the same period as Windows 11 makes its official beginnings, later in 2021. If this will see Microsoft update its neo surface Concept – or retire discreetly. At about the same time remains to be seen.
