Intel's first Twin Lake CPU, the N250, has been spotted and features just four E-Cores with four threads in a low-power package.
Intel's Next Power-Efficient CPU Family Will Be The Twin Lake, N250 With Four Gracemont E-Cores Minus HT
Intel's Pentium and Celeron CPU lineup used to serve the low-power market quite adequately, but Team Blue ultimately decided to scrap them & introduce the Alder-Lake N series, notably the Intel N100, which saw mass adoption in laptops and mini-PCs.
To proceed to the next generation, it seems like Intel has decided to refresh the lineup, with new power-efficient CPUs under the 12W barrier being released under the "Twin Lake" family, revealed in a data mining done by InstLaX64.
There is a #TwinLake (CPUID B06E0, 4c/4th, 1.2GHz, w/o HTT) among the #Intel test machines:https://t.co/v6qc33SzVD
Brand string is "Intel(R) N250" https://t.co/N0Km0vgdgt pic.twitter.com/qqHTcXMAFy— InstLatX64 (@InstLatX64) May 14, 2024
According to the information that surfaced, one of the Twin Lake series entrants will reportedly be called the Intel N250. The CPU is expected to feature a 4-core and a 4-thread configuration, similar to what its older-gen counterpart, the Intel N100, comes with. The processor will have a base clock of 1.2 GHz and will not support hyper-threading at all since it is said that the Twin Lake lineup will come with Gracemont E-cores onboard, similar to what the original Alder-Lake series was equipped with. The N250 also supports a 200 MHz clock bump over the N200 which is the Alder Lake-N chip.
#Intel #AlderLakeN N200 vs #TwinLake N250, +200MHz:
N200:https://t.co/wR7YWYcisC
N250:https://t.co/v6qc33SzVD pic.twitter.com/8FOLSdRRYE— InstLatX64 (@InstLatX64) May 16, 2024
Intel's approach with the Twin Lake series isn't clear yet since the company intends to provide power-efficient solutions without any visible generational improvements. We aren't aware of when the Twin Lake CPUs are expected to drop into markets, but if they do, they'll likely see massive interest from the mini-PC industry and low-power laptops as well.
About the author: Muhammad Zuhair is a hardware and technology reporter for Wccftech, specializing in the semiconductor industry and the complex interplay between technology, manufacturing, and geopolitics. His coverage focuses on the corporate strategies and technological roadmaps of industry giants like TSMC, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Intel. Zuhair's expertise lies in deconstructing complex topics such as fabrication nodes (e.g., 2nm process), the economic impact of policies like the CHIPS Act, and the strategic development of AI infrastructure from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel.
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