Tuesday, August 15th 2017
Intel Officially Reveals What's Coming After Coffee Lake: The 10 nm Ice Lake
A pretty underwhelming post on Intel's official page has pulled the curtains of the company's architecture name post their 8th generation processors. Actually, it's a little more puzzling than that, since Intel is actually detailing the codename of an architecture that's supposed to come right after their 8th generation - read, Coffee Lake - processors. Keep in mind that Coffee Lake, whilst being supposed to bring a reorganization of Intel's product stack in response to AMD's Ryzen success, will still be in the 14 nm++ process - the third such architecture in the same process, after Skylake (14 nm) and Kaby Lake (14 nm+) before it. Cannon Lake, however, is supposed to be the company's first tick into the 10 nm process.
Intel has moved over from their famed tick-tock (where tick is a process shrink and tock is a new architecture on the same process) cadence, and are now telling customers to expect at least three "tocks" per process. It's expected that Intel will launch mobile processors on the 10 nm process before any desktop parts are launched on the same process; this could stem from the fact that mobile parts are typically lower-power, smaller-sized dies, which are easier and cheaper to produce out of a still maturing 10 nm process, which usually implies lower than ideal yields.
Sources:
Intel Codename Decoder, Intel's Ice Lake Page, via AnandTech
Intel has moved over from their famed tick-tock (where tick is a process shrink and tock is a new architecture on the same process) cadence, and are now telling customers to expect at least three "tocks" per process. It's expected that Intel will launch mobile processors on the 10 nm process before any desktop parts are launched on the same process; this could stem from the fact that mobile parts are typically lower-power, smaller-sized dies, which are easier and cheaper to produce out of a still maturing 10 nm process, which usually implies lower than ideal yields.
24 Comments on Intel Officially Reveals What's Coming After Coffee Lake: The 10 nm Ice Lake
More than 10 fold compared to 32nm Sandy bridge mainstream quad. And what we get is 6-core at best.
IPC, give sandy DDR4 and the same clock speeds and that IPC number will be much lower.
Unfortunately we cannot do it, but we can give 7700K 2133 mhz and sandy 1800 mhz and I've seen the numbers, it doesn't look like progress at all!
Intel has been slacking off quite a bit for the past few years and they haven't really had a worthy competitor for a while now.
My next computer probably will be built around an AMD Threadripper CPU and I am very grateful to AMD for taking steps to get their act together and give Intel at least some amount of competition. I hope AMD continues to compete with Intel and grow more and more.
But this "will make 10nm chips, i promise" is outdated. According to Intel we should already have 10nm chips.
But Intel itself screwed it up.
Cuz instead of 14nm shrink in 2014 we got haswell refresh. In 2015 instead of 14nm new architecture we got broadwell (the 14nm shrink of haswell). In 2016 instead of 10nm shrink, we got 14nm architecture a.k.a. Skylake and in 2017 instead of 10nm new architecture we got "skylake refresh"; and if Ryzen wouldnt have been this successful, in 2018 we would've got just another refresh of kaby lake.
But right now they are announcing 2 generations a CPU families? Even though Intel still holds the vast majority of the x86 CPU market, this looks like a very desperate cry for attention.