Whiskey Lake (microarchitecture)


Whiskey Lake is Intel's codename for the third 14 nm Skylake process-refinement, following Kaby Lake Refresh and Coffee Lake. Intel announced low power mobile Whiskey Lake CPUs availability on August 28, 2018. it has not yet been advertised whether this CPU architecture contains hardware mitigations for Meltdown/Spectre class vulnerabilities—various sources contain conflicting information. Unofficially it was announced that Whiskey Lake has hardware mitigations against Meltdown and L1TF while Spectre V2 requires software mitigations as well as microcode/firmware update.

Architecture changes compared to Kaby Lake Refresh

Mobile processors

for these CPUs is 15 W, but is configurable.
Core i5-8365U and i7-8665U support Intel vPro Technology
Pentium Gold and Celeron CPUs lack AVX2 support.