Due to changing demand, Intel has discontinued its Foveros-based Lakefield processors, which were praised for their "hybrid technology" when they were first introduced in 4. Around this time, the chip giant positioned Lakefield and the Foveros technology that powers these processors as a counter to Arm's Big.LITTLE, as these chips have one main processor core paired with multiple low-power cores. . Notably, Lakefield processors feature a 2nm Sunny Cove processor core paired with 1 Tremont Atom-based cores. While the larger Sunny Cove core is used to handle heavy, power-hungry workloads, Tremont cores are used to handle background tasks more efficiently. While Lakefield chips were designed to power the future of laptops, they only appeared in XNUMX devices: the Lenovo Thinkpad XXNUMX Fold and Intel's version of the Samsung Galaxy Book S. Last year, many thought that the architecture behind Lakefield processors it would soon become the default for foldable devices due to its smaller card size. In fact, Microsoft was still planning to use Intel's Lakefield chips in its announced but yet to be seen Surface Neo, announced as well as the Surface Duo.
Lakefield arrested
As reported by The Register, Intel has confirmed that its Lakefield processors (officially known as "Intel Core Processors with Intel Hybrid Technology") have been discontinued in a product change notification recently sent to customers of the service. The last orders for the company's surplus Lakefield processors are to be taken at the end of October this year, with final shipment expected to take place at the end of April next year. Supposedly, the market demand for Lakefield chips was not high enough and had drifted away to other products, which is why Intel decided to kill off the processor family. In a statement to The Register, an Intel spokesperson explained that while Lakefield is scrapped, the chips were a milestone for the company, saying: "Intel Core processors with Intel Hybrid Technology, also known by the codename 'Lakefield' , have been an essential step in our xPU strategy and the continuous innovation of our architecture. They tested the potential of the x86 hybrid processor and new packaging technology to enable dramatically reduced card size, while still delivering Intel Core performance. As noted in the product change notice, Lakefield's lawsuit moves to other products. This has no impact on our new generation computer processors, called "Alder Lake". through registration