Intel is developing a new Big.Little size x86 architecture: Lakefield

Some friends who know something about the mobile phone SoC are no strangers to the 'Big.Little' architecture. This is a heterogeneous CPU design that was first introduced on the ARM platform. It can balance high performance with low power consumption. Have you ever thought about Intel x86? Can also be imitated? Theoretically, Intel developed a lot of CPU architecture based on the x86 instruction set, high-performance Core (Cool), such as 'Coffee Lake' 'Skylake' 'Haswell' and so on, low-power platforms have ATOM in Used 'Silvermont' 'Goldmont' etc.

According to the Motley Fool Tech broke news analyst Ashraf Eassa, Intel is secretly developing an architecture design codenamed 'Lakefield', where the high-performance big core is based on 'Icelake' and the small core is based on 'Tremont'.

IceLake is the platform code behind Cannonlake and is said to be used on the 10th generation Core, while Tremont is the successor to Goldmont Plus.

Eassa revealed that Intel will create 'Lakefield' SoC products with thermal design power consumption of 28W and 35W for notebook and other products.

Of course, for such a brand-new 'size kernel' design, it may be necessary to do some in-depth optimization work on compatibility so that operating systems, software, games, etc. can be fully identified and efficiently mobilized.