According to reports from foreign technology media Windows Central, Microsoft has postponed the release plan of the ARM version of Surface Go products.
It was reported in April this year that the Surface Go 4 being developed by Microsoft is internally code-named Tanta, and the entry-level model will be equipped with a SoC based on Snapdragon 7c, which has similar performance to the current Surface Go, but with higher energy efficiency and longer battery life. long.
The media has learned from sources that Microsoft has delayed the device code-named Tanta, and instead launched Surface Go with Intel processors for enterprise users.
The new Surface Go will be equipped with an Intel N200 processor, which will be more powerful and consume less power than the current top-of-the-line Surface Go with Core i3-10100Y.
The processor offers 4 energy-efficient cores (E cores, Gracemont architecture) with a frequency of up to 3.7 GHz. The performance of the E cores should be similar to the older Skylake cores (compared to the Core i7-6700HQ). All cores can use up to 6 MB of L3 cache.
Alder Lake-N chips only support single-channel memory up to DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, or LPDDR5-4800. The chip also supports Quick Sync and AV1 decoding (likely the same engine found in Alder Lake). Also, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 (but no Thunderbolt) are partially integrated. External chips can be connected via PCIe Gen3 x9 (via PCH).
The integrated graphics adapter is based on the Xe architecture and provides all 32 EUs (Execution Units) running at only 450 – 750 MHz. The iGPU has very limited gaming performance due to single channel memory, low clock speed and low number of stream processors.
The base power consumption of the N200 is only 6 W, making it suitable for fanless cooling. The CPU is built on Intel’s further improved 10nm SuperFin process, called Intel 7.
