Thursday, April 9th 2020
Intel 10nm Product Lineup for 2020 Revealed: Alder Lake and Ice Lake Xeons
A leaked Intel internal slide surfaced on Chinese social networks, revealing five new products the company will build on its 10 nm silicon fabrication process. These include the "Alder Lake" heterogenous desktop processor, "Tiger Lake" mobile processor, "Ice Lake" based Xeon Scalable enterprise processors, DG1 discrete GPU, and "Snow Ridge" 5G base-station SoC. Some, if not all of these products, will implement Intel's new 10 nm+ silicon fabrication node that is expected to go live within 2020.
"Alder Lake" is a desktop processor that implements Intel's new heterogenous x86 core design that's making its debut with "Lakefield." The chip features up to 8 larger "Willow Cove" or "Golden Cove" CPU cores, and up to 8 smaller "Tremont" or "Gracemont" cores. This 8-big/8-small combo lets the chip achieve TDP targets around 80 Watts. Next up is "Tiger Lake," Intel's next-generation mobile processor family succeeding "Ice Lake." This microarchitecture implements "Willow Cove" CPU cores in a homogeneous setup, alongside Xe architecture based integrated graphics. "Ice Lake-SP" is Intel's next enterprise architecture that places mature "Sunny Cove" CPU cores in extreme core-count dies. Lastly, there's "Snow Ridge," an SoC purpose built for 5G base-stations. Image quality notwithstanding, these slides don't appear particularly new, and it's likely that COVID-19 has destabilized the roadmap. For instance, "Alder Lake," and "Ice Lake-SP" are expected to be 10 nm++ chips, a node that doesn't go live before 2021.
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Black_fang XIII (Reddit)
"Alder Lake" is a desktop processor that implements Intel's new heterogenous x86 core design that's making its debut with "Lakefield." The chip features up to 8 larger "Willow Cove" or "Golden Cove" CPU cores, and up to 8 smaller "Tremont" or "Gracemont" cores. This 8-big/8-small combo lets the chip achieve TDP targets around 80 Watts. Next up is "Tiger Lake," Intel's next-generation mobile processor family succeeding "Ice Lake." This microarchitecture implements "Willow Cove" CPU cores in a homogeneous setup, alongside Xe architecture based integrated graphics. "Ice Lake-SP" is Intel's next enterprise architecture that places mature "Sunny Cove" CPU cores in extreme core-count dies. Lastly, there's "Snow Ridge," an SoC purpose built for 5G base-stations. Image quality notwithstanding, these slides don't appear particularly new, and it's likely that COVID-19 has destabilized the roadmap. For instance, "Alder Lake," and "Ice Lake-SP" are expected to be 10 nm++ chips, a node that doesn't go live before 2021.
45 Comments on Intel 10nm Product Lineup for 2020 Revealed: Alder Lake and Ice Lake Xeons
10nm+... ++++
But, disclaimers galore. I suppose this is the shareholders' reality.
but one can hope.
How many Denuvo embeded game will not launch on those 1000$ processor??
More seriously it is about time for Intel to step things up. AMD is not so long away from there 7nm version 2 or zen 3 and Intel is stil baraly moving on to 10 nm yet.
Lets hope the good days of competition can return so consumers can get exciting new cpu releases to a good price. Until zen 2 cpu releases has hornestly been rather boring. Intel came with one quad-core after another for mainstream and not so many more cores for HEDT for a long time and amd first two zen arkitekture whas alright but nothing that got me excited, all throw zen 2 changed that. So now I hope whit Intel moving on to 10 and 7 nm and amd seems to really has gotten zen up and running for real now. I hope the coming years will bring more existing releases from both Intel and amd.
The future for CPU's looks great the coming future now I think.
On ARM side in big.Little design both the Big and Small core have same Instruction set, but with different throughput.
See here : en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/lakefield
Sadly, it will. Sunny Cove supports everything Intel offers right now - including AVX-512.AFAIK the official timeline is Zen4 on 5nm in 2022.
Intel says their 7nm (equivalent to TSMC 5nm) will come in 2021.
The only difference: TSMC5nm will most likely
You may think it's just one year, but Intel's 10nm goes mainstream one year after 7nm Zen2 and look at all the chaos it made on forums and in reviews. :D
Lakefield uses the same idea as you said above, "both the Big and Small core (Sunny and Tremont) have same Instruction set, but with different throughput"Probably Rocket will be this year and Alder next year more likely.Just what? 10nm was available with Ice Lake in 2019. That it wasn't a success is a different thing, but it brings improvements in power and density compared to 14nm.
Yields and frequency scaling wasn't great, but maybe it will be better with the next iteration in Tiger Lake.Amd rolls 5nm line when TSMC rolls 5nm. 5nm oficially starts with Apple products this September, because Apple is helping TSMC both financially and technically to ramp a new process as fast as possible and for them to be the first to get silicon. AMD will have another generation in the shape of Zen 3 on 7nm, launching at the end of this year, and given the transition to a new node is not trivial, AMD will probably launch Zen 4 with 5nm at the end of 2021, with mass availability in 2022.
AMD covered all gaming,from consoles to pc,for everybody,from entry level to high lvl.
Also with the path AMD has created u can keep up with new cpu whitout change mobo,etc.
I will keep the i9 9900k but no more invest on intel platform.