Intel Whiskey Lake codename appears in HWiNFO changelog

Posted on Wednesday, December 27 2017 @ 18:58 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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The changelog of the latest version of HWiNFO contains a couple of interesting codenames. Tom's Hardware writes the tool added support for the upcoming AMD 400-series chipsets, as well as compatibility with the future Intel Ice Lake and Whiskey Lake processors.

As we wrote earlier this year, Ice Lake is expected to be released in 2018 or 2019. This chip will succeed the 14nm Coffee Lake and 10nm Cannon Lake. It will be fabbed on Intel's enhanced 10nm+ process. The first Ice Lake CPUs are expected to be 15W U-series and 4.5W Y-series parts.

The changelog also contains a reference to Whiskey Lake, this is a future notebook processor. According to the latest rumors, Whiskey Lake is slated for summer 2018. Interestingly, this will be yet another 14nm part, it will be fabbed on the 14nm+++ node.
Finally, the changelog says the utility "Added reporting of CPU per-core turbo ratios (IA/SSE, AVX2, AVX-512) for Intel." This is important because Intel stopped listing multi-core turbo ratios with its Coffee Lake processors. This tactic breaks with the company's long-standing practice of listing the various turbo ratios that kick in based on the number of active cores. Intel has never guaranteed that its processors will reach the multi-core Turbo Boost bins, but it was nice to have them listed in the specifications.
HWiNFO also added support for AMD 400-series chipsets. These will be launched alongside the 12nm Ryzen 2000 "Pinnacle Ridge" series, probably in the March 2018 timeframe.


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