Posted on Thursday, May 07 2020 @ 10:00 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
NotebookCheck
reports Apple seems to have exclusive access to Intel's 10nm Ice Lake processors. At least for now, all supply of the chip giants 10nm Ice Lake chips is going to the new 13-inch MacBook Pro.
The current top of the line Ice Lake part listed on Intel’s website is a Core i7-1065G7 quad-core 15 W part (configurable up to 25 W) chip with a base frequency of just 1.3 GHz with boost to 3.9 GHz. Even the Core i5-1038G7 (28 W) part available for the new 13-inch MacBook Pro has a base clock of 2.0 GHz and can boost to 3.8 GHz. The new Core i7-1068G7 (28 W) part has a base clock of 2.3 GHz and can boost to 4.1 GHz making both chips the highest performing Ice Lake parts currently found in any notebook by some margin.
It's unknown when Intel will ship high-performance 10nm processors to other device makers. The Ice Lake parts used by Apple have a much higher frequency than the 10th Gen Core processors shipped to other OEMs. NotebookCheck speculates Intel may still not have decent enough yields on 10nm to offer higher-frequency chips in more volume.
