Intel Gemini Lake coming in March 2018

FUD Zilla writes Intel is expected to introduce its Gemini Lake processors towards late Q1 2018. This series will replace the Apollo Lake chips that were launched in Q3 2016. Gemini Lake is an improved 14nm architecture and it's intended for tablets and very low-end laptops, mostly 2-in-1 devices. Gemini Lake is a quad-core Atom-class chip with a TDP range of 4W to 6W.

Intel is targeting the €199 - €299 notebook/ 2 in 1/tablet market with the widely available Atom X5s. This will get replaced by the Gemini Lake generation. Gemini Lake is also known as the Goldmont plus. As the name implies this is still a 14nm improved design and not really a new architecture.

We don’t need to remind you that Intel is having trouble stepping down from 14nm manufacturing to 10nm but apparently this will happen at least for some devices in the course of 2018. Unfortunately, not for the Pentium X7/Celeron X5 previously known as Atom System on a chip. The good news is that the new 14nm++ - which is how Intel sometimes calls it, should be able to get you some additional 10 percent performance over the previous generation.

Some Gemini Lake based devices are expected in March but the bulk of them won't ship until Q2 2018.