Intel is yet has to
announce its 9th Gen Core processors for
laptops officially, but because the company needs to sort out all the things
with authorities and regulators well in advance of actual product launches, CPU
model numbers and general specifications have been published well ahead of the
formal release. As it turns out, recently the company disclosed the first
details about its 9th Gen mobile Core i9, Core
i7, and Core i5 H-series processors for higher-end laptops.
Before proceeding to the
actual products, let us make it clear what Intel actually revealed. Among other
things, Intel (and other companies) has a number of export compliance metrics for its CPUs, including GFLOPS, Adjusted Peak
Performance (APP), and Composite Theoretical Performance (CTP). These metrics
are used by various governments to determine capabilities of CPUs and other
processors. The APP and GFLOPS metrics are used by the US Department of
Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Meanwhile, other authorities
and regulators use CTP calculations, which are stated in Millions of
Theoretical Operations Per Second (MTOPS), to assess what companies import to
their countries. The CTP numbers are the ones that Intel published for its yet-to-be
released CPUs.
Since the new processors
belong to Intel’s 9th Gen Core family are
designed to feature hardware mitigations against specific Meltdown and Spectre
vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, a quick look at the basic specs that Intel
published as well as their CTP numbers can shed some light on general
specifications of the upcoming 9th Gen Core
H-series mobile processors.
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