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
And DRM software like Denuvo use FMA3 (which Lakefield lacks), with out this new instruction your cpu cant run new games. This days old but still capable Phenom II and Core 2 Quad cant run many game because of lack of new instruction like AVX and FMA3.
Everything is written in the article. It states "SOME" of the products are 2020 on 10nm+, and others on 10nm++ in 2021.
Alder Lake is 2021 on 10nm++.
These process refinements are exactly like you say, everyone does it. So why mention it? Answer: because its all Intel has, and all the pluses are now, is just a few hundred mhz less base for a few hundred mhz more turbo. So its an empty shell and that is obviously what my sarcasm was about.It kinda still echoes that Intel's design goals were way too difficult to achieve. And then they got stuck so deep there was no way back.
Better focus on thermals, power consumption, price and performance :laugh:
Every node does it, and yet you hadn't got 32nm++ or 65nm++.
But there are numerous productive applications and a few games I believe which requires AVX, and usage of AVX is likely to increase since it offers massive performance gains and good efficiency. While I wouldn't recommend doing any real productive work on a laptop anyway, laptops still can get substantial performance gains from AVX, e.g. with laptops running Intel's Clear Linux (compiled with various AVX optimizations).
Adding basic AVX support shouldn't be hard, even in a smaller core. The full desktop architectures uses multiple units spread across three execution ports, a smaller setup can scale this down.
2021 - Alder Lake BIG.little 8+8+1 cores on LGA-1700
Intel Alder Lake-S Desktop CPUs Will Only Feature Support on the New LGA 1700 Socket Platform, LGA 1200 To Last Two 2020 CPU Generations:
wccftech.com/intel-alder-lake-s-next-gen-desktop-cpus-lga-1700-socket-support/
videocardz.com/newz/intel-alder-lake-s-rumored-to-feature-lga1700-socket