Thursday, September 15th 2016
Intel "Coffee Lake" Architecture by Q2-2018, 7 nm Process By 2022?
Intel's silicon fabrication has evidently hit a huge roadblock. It turns out that not just "Kaby Lake," but its two successors "Cannon Lake" and "Coffee Lake" could also be built on the 14 nm node, at best with a few process-level improvements. "Coffee Lake" is the company's 9th generation Core architecture, which is two steps ahead of even the "Kaby Lake" architecture, which is due later this year. "Kaby Lake" makes its way to the 45W mobile (H-segment) and 15W mobile (U-segment), in Q4-2016 and Q3-2016, respectively. The 15W U-segment will be augmented by "Cannon Lake" (8th generation Core) in Q4-2017. By mid-2018, Intel plans to launch "Coffee Lake" across both H- and U-segments.
According to a "Hot Hardware" report, based on a job listing for a systems engineer at the company, Intel could be staring at the scary prospect of holding out on 14 nm for the next three years, only to be relieved by the stopgap 10 nm node, which makes its debut with the 10th generation Core "Tiger Lake" architecture, due for 2019. "Tiger Lake," its succeeding "Ice Lake," and one other architecture could be launched on 10 nm, before finally deploying 7 nm around 2022.
Sources:
HotHardware, AnandTech Forums
According to a "Hot Hardware" report, based on a job listing for a systems engineer at the company, Intel could be staring at the scary prospect of holding out on 14 nm for the next three years, only to be relieved by the stopgap 10 nm node, which makes its debut with the 10th generation Core "Tiger Lake" architecture, due for 2019. "Tiger Lake," its succeeding "Ice Lake," and one other architecture could be launched on 10 nm, before finally deploying 7 nm around 2022.
40 Comments on Intel "Coffee Lake" Architecture by Q2-2018, 7 nm Process By 2022?
When AMD was "in the game", how much of a performance boost came from one generation to the next, in percentage? Since AMD "left" the scene, how much of a gain has Intel had from one generation to the next?
@ least it's allot better the what AMD has. Hopefully, AMD's Zen will force intel to either drop it's prices, up it's performance or, if we're REALLY lucky, both.
AMD screwdriver
this old Benchmark tells exactly what you wrote and additionally again what a flop bulldozer is.
the jumps intel made from:
"Q9550" to "i5-760" and then to "i5-2400" are great at compareable pricepoints
or
"QX9770" to "i7-975XE" and the to "i7-2700" again great at compareable pricepoints
and when you look at AMDs journey i get upset because there is a point where they gave up the race:
"Phenom 9950 BE" first jumps to CPUs without L3-Cache "Athlon II X4 640" to "A8-3850" not that bad
or
the clockscaling "Phenom 9950 BE" to "X4 940" to "X4 980" is okay too
but look at the Bulldozer-Cores
now one gets that AMD took a very wrong turn.
In my opinion they should´ve shrunk the Phenom ll and thurban till the "jim keller point in time" who came and designed a "new big many pipelines Core" in a Bobcat-Quadcore-Module-style AMD could´ve leaned with the Cat-Cores and never design stuff like Bulldozer