Bye Hello 2021! It will also kick off next year with keynote streams from the three major chip manufacturers AMD, Intel and Nvidia on the occasion of the consumer electronics trade fair CES 2021. The latter takes place purely digitally, but initially only changes slightly for end users due to the streams.

Intel’s head of the client division, Gregory Bryant, speaks on 11. January 2021 at 22 clock German time via desktop and notebook processors. At the 12. January 2021 at 17 o’clock follows AMD’s boss Lisa Su with a keynote about Radeon and Ryzen; Nvidia has scheduled the GeForce event “Game On” for 18 clock.

Companies like to use CES trade fairs for an outlook on the rest of the year. Intel wants 2021 to bring two new processor generations for desktop PCs: Rocket Lake-S as Core i – 11000 starts at the beginning of the year – according to speculation, the chip manufacturer is targeting March. New mainboards with 500 chipsets like the Z 590 according to the website WCCFTech could go on sale in January. These would then initially only run with Comet Lake CPUs (Core i – 10000).

Promising notebook competition With Rocket Lake, Intel is pushing another 14 – Nanometer design, but this time not again as a Skylake offshoot, but with backported “Cypress Cove” -Computing cores and Xe graphics unit. Something between Ice Lake and Tiger Lake, but with tried and tested – some might say old – manufacturing technology. Intel seems to give Rocket Lake only a short lifetime, however, because CEO Bob Swan has already confirmed that the successor Alder Lake will also appear 2021. In the series Intel brings a combination of fast Cove and efficient Atom cores 10 -nm technology, plus the new CPU version LGA 590 and DDR5 controller.

For notebooks, Tiger Lake-H, the first mobile processor from Intel with 10 – nm structures and more than four cores. The eight-core should compete with AMD’s Ryzen Mobile, which will receive an update to the Zen 3 architecture next year – called Cezanne for notebooks.

At CES 2020 announced AMD Renoir as Ryzen 4000 U (15 Watt) and Ryzen 4000 H (35 / 45 Watt) an, 2021 will probably follow Ryzen 5000 U and Ryzen 5000H. Traditionally, however, it takes months for such notebooks to reach retailers. The desktop processors Ryzen 5000 already attest Zen 3 a high single-threading performance – the duel Tiger Lake vs. Be Cezanne.