Sunday, June 11th 2017
Intel Announces 9th Gen Core "Cannon Lake" On Track, "Ice Lake" Taped Out
Intel announced that its first CPU micro-architecture built on its upcoming 10 nanometer silicon fab process, the 9th generation Core "Cannon Lake," is on track. In a tweet on the official company account, Intel also announced that its second micro-architecture on the new 10 nm process, codenamed "Ice Lake," is taped out.
In the wake of a competitive CPU lineup by AMD, Intel is frantically upgrading its product lineup, beginning with the new "Basin Falls" HEDT platform early-Summer 2017, followed by its 14 nm "Coffee Lake" 8th generation Core series late-Summer. "Coffee Lake" sees the first six-core SKUs to Intel's mainstream desktop lineup, which has until now, been restricted to dual-core and quad-core parts.
"Cannon Lake" is essentially a die-shrink of "Coffee Lake" to the 10 nm process, and one can't expect huge micro-architecture changes, besides maybe higher clock speeds or lower TDP. "Ice Lake," on the other hand, is expected to be a major micro-architecture update of the kind "Skylake" is to "Broadwell." With its silicon taped-out, one can expect a mid-thru-late 2018 product roll-out, if the 10 nm execution goes as planned for Intel.
Source:
Intel (Twitter)
In the wake of a competitive CPU lineup by AMD, Intel is frantically upgrading its product lineup, beginning with the new "Basin Falls" HEDT platform early-Summer 2017, followed by its 14 nm "Coffee Lake" 8th generation Core series late-Summer. "Coffee Lake" sees the first six-core SKUs to Intel's mainstream desktop lineup, which has until now, been restricted to dual-core and quad-core parts.
22 Comments on Intel Announces 9th Gen Core "Cannon Lake" On Track, "Ice Lake" Taped Out
If i were to upgrade i would go AMD just because, lose a little performance to help a company that gets other company's asses in to gear.
Pentium 4 is completely different from Pentium 3, C2D/C2Q is another different kind of beast from Pentium 3,
AND 2nd gen completely different from 1st gen core i series
until it stagnant from 3000 series onward til today...
Core i was like a hybrid because of hyper threading.
Once taped-out, it is going to be just a few months away from availability, which is, apparently, not the case here.
Also, way the big boys (Intel, Nvidia) are acting, i don't see any motive for people like me to keep spending.. we're talking mini changes, charged for upwards of 1K, sans the mobo, that again, one wouldn't even feel outside benches. Where's the incentive i used to have? Gone.
Last but not least, it's becoming more fun building and tweaking, than it is looking at it when it's finished :)
Less and more often, with AMD/Ati only is my way to go from now on. I will let children scream about "bestest" and focus on enjoying the process a bit more ^^
All put together we INTEL have nothing new to offer until mid-2018 maybe with ICE-Lake. AMD while slow to bring on their Zen is shaking the CPU market.
It was out, was just incredibly late; Sky Lake was very close behind launch of Broadwell.
Skylake-X offers larger changes over Skylake as well, with a redesigned cache hierarchy, AVX-512 and different core infrastructure.How can you claim that?
We already know Broadwell-E is faster than Zen cores, but we don't know how much Skylake-X will improve on top of that.
So:
Q1 2011 Intel brings i7 2600K (32nm) (TDP 95W)- Average CPU Mark (cpubenchmark.net) - 8480 points
... I7 3770K
... I7 4790K
... I7 6700K
Q1 2017 the big success i7 7700K (14nm) (TDP 95W) - Average CPU Mark (cpubenchmark.net) - 12178 points
After 6 years and 4 more generation Intel manage to build (in the same price range 300-350$) a CPU who is with 43% (average) faster than best i7 in 2011.
And now Intel prepare the word for a astonishing release that will bring some 5% increase in performance. Oh, well what can i say....i'm speechless.
Now let's go back to our Ryzen rigs.
www.techspot.com/review/1028-intel-core-i7-5775c-broadwell/
"Since the eDRAM operates at 1.8GHz on these Broadwell processors, it affords them an extra bi-directional throughput of over 57GB/s (114GB/s aggregate). Better still, the large L4 cache isn’t exclusive to the graphics engine, the CPU can also access this cache. When a discrete GPU is used, the eDRAM will focus on caching CPU requests, effectively giving Broadwell desktop processors a massive 128MB L4 cache."
b) they never released anything with L4 since
I was expecting Skylake to be a flagship with L4 across the board. It turned out to be just another CPU with hardly any changes. What was worse is that HEDT didn't even receive Skylake part up until NOW. And I've had the "old" Haswell-E system for 2 years since mainstream Skylake was introduced. It also only had boring 4c/8t as maximum. I've been on 4c/8t like 6 years ago with Core i7 920. Which is why I ended up opting for older 5820K with 6c/12t...
I don't understand.