According to the portal AnandTechIntel held a recently closed presentation in which it announced that it plans to release updated Tiger Lake-U series mobile processors for thin laptops later this year. The manufacturer presented the original chips of this series in September last year. The series consists of dual- and quad-core models with a TDP level of 15 to 28 W. The updated processors will be called Tiger Lake Refresh or TGL-R.

Tiger Lake-U processors are built using Intel’s new 10nm SuperFin processors. They are based on Willow Cove cores, offering frequencies from 3,0 to 4,8 GHz. The chips also use the Xe-LP graphics core with 96 execution units operating at frequencies up to 1350 MHz. The platform supports DDR4-3200 and LPDDR4X-4266 RAM.

At the time of the announcement of Tiger Lake-U chips last year, Intel said that they can technically work with LPDDR5-5400 RAM, but until now, such solutions have not yet been found in laptops. Intel did not reveal details about the upcoming Tiger Lake Refresh, however, according to AnandTech, improved support for the new memory standard, along with an optimized SuperFin process, may be one of their key features. 

According to the source, full support for LPDDR5-5600 memory will provide RAM bandwidth at 89,6 GB / s, which is 75% higher than the capabilities of DDR4-3200 and 31% higher than LPDDR4X-4267. In some scenarios, the performance gain from using the new memory standard, especially with integrated graphics, will be very noticeable. On the other hand, the manufacturer can restrict himself to just the usual increase in the clock rates in the updated models.

As part of the presentation, the company also noted that the update expects only models with a TDP range from 15 to 28. In other words, we are not talking about Tiger Lake-H35 processors with a TDP level of 35 W, which were presented in January of this year and are intended for use in composition of thin gaming laptops.