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HP leaks details about Kaby and Apollo Lake

by on16 August 2016


Be careful what you put in the manual

HP might have put some IDF spoilers into its Pavilion x360 m1 technical maintenance manual.

The first personal computers powered by Intel's Kaby Lake 7th Generation Core chips are expected to be show cased at IDF, but HP's maintenance documents contain a lot of new information about the Skylake successor.

HP's Pavilion x360 m1 convertible PC can be used either as a tablet or a laptop. The hybrid device can be configured with Intel's dual-core Core i3-7100U working at a speed of 2.40GHz. The processor comes with 3 MB of cache and consumes 15 watts of power.

But all this tells us about  the capabilities of Intel's other Kaby Lake chips. The Core i3-7100U features an HD Graphics 620 processor capable of DirectX 12 gaming. It also comes with built-in high-definition video decoding.and Intel has confirmed it can manage 4K video.

HP's Pavilion x360 m1 convertible machine can also be configured with an upcoming Celeron or Pentium processor code-named Apollo Lake. Both the Celeron and Pentium versions of the Apollo Lake chip a consume only six watts of power which should mean a long battery life.

Intel's Apollo Lake CPUs are based on the Goldmont architecture originally designed for Atom CPUs. For the HP Pavilion x360 m are available Apollo Lake chip options based on Celeron and Pentium. The Pentium N4200 runs at a speed of 1.1GHz, but can be overclocked up to 2.5GHz. The Apollo Lake based on the Celeron N3350 can go up to a working frequency of 2.4GHz. Both Intel Apollo Lake chips come with 2 MB of L2 cache of L2 cache.

Last modified on 16 August 2016
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