Wednesday, July 15th 2020
Intel has "Something Big to Share" on September 2nd
Intel just sent out press invites to what is likely an online media event slated for September 2, 2020. The spells nothing other than a one-liner "We have something big to share..." with the September 2 date. Everyone has a theory as to what this could be, depending on who you ask. The Verge has a valid theory pointing to this being a formal launch of the 11th Gen Core "Tiger Lake" mobile processors on the basis of several notebook manufacturers slating their "Tiger Lake" based notebook launches on "Fall 2020."
We believe this could be a desktop-related unveil, possibly a performance preview or teaser of the company's 11th Gen "Rocket Lake-S" processor. Why September? Because September 2020 is going to be a busy month for AMD and NVIDIA, with both launching their next-gen consumer graphics architectures, product lines; and more interestingly, AMD rumored to launch its "Zen 3" microarchitecture in some shape or form. A Ryzen 4000 "Vermeer" product launch could trigger Intel to at least preview "Rocket Lake-S," as it's the first client-desktop microarchitecture in 5 years to introduce IPC gains on the backs of new "Cypress Cove" CPU cores that are a 14 nm back-port of "Willow Cove." It wouldn't surprise us if Intel shed more light on the performance throughput of its big new Xe graphics processors.
Source:
The Verge
We believe this could be a desktop-related unveil, possibly a performance preview or teaser of the company's 11th Gen "Rocket Lake-S" processor. Why September? Because September 2020 is going to be a busy month for AMD and NVIDIA, with both launching their next-gen consumer graphics architectures, product lines; and more interestingly, AMD rumored to launch its "Zen 3" microarchitecture in some shape or form. A Ryzen 4000 "Vermeer" product launch could trigger Intel to at least preview "Rocket Lake-S," as it's the first client-desktop microarchitecture in 5 years to introduce IPC gains on the backs of new "Cypress Cove" CPU cores that are a 14 nm back-port of "Willow Cove." It wouldn't surprise us if Intel shed more light on the performance throughput of its big new Xe graphics processors.
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A significant improvement from our much previous best which was 14nm++++
Cycle Process Introduction Microarchitecture
Tick 65 nm 2005 Pentium D
Tock 65 nm 2006 Core
Tick 45 nm 2007 Penryn
Tock 45 nm 2008 Nehalem
Tick 32 nm 2009 Westmere
Tock 32 nm 2010 Sandy Bridge
Tick 22 nm 2011 Ivy Bridge
Tock 22 nm 2013 Haswell
Tick 14 nm 2014 Broadwell
Tock 14 nm 2015 Skylake
O... 14 nm 2016 Kaby Lake (Skylake+)
O... 14 nm 2017 Coffee Lake (Skylake++)
O... 14 nm 2018 Coffee Lake Refresh (Skylake+++)
O... 14 nm 2020 Comet Lake (Skylake++++)
Tock 14 nm 2020? Rocket Lake
Intel's clock has been stuck for 5+ years. It is finally beginning to slowly lurch back into gear?
We can all stare in awe as a chip with the aggregated performance of a 2 year old iPad mini proceeds to melt a tablet before our very eyes.
- Intel is using HyperThreading and advertises dual threads while having the process advantage. We can't keep fighting them with dual cores. What can we do?
- Easy. We will create modules that equal with 1.51 cores and market them as full dual cores
Intel present time
- AMD is killing us with their process advantage and the chiplet design. We can't keep up with their core count. What can we do?
- Easy. We will create processors with big and little cores and advertise the sum of the cores on the box
- Launch of Tiger Lake-U
- Launch of their new Optane SSDs
- Announcement of Tiger Lake-H (coming early 2021?)
- Launch of Ice Lake-SP (if it's not already shipping)
- Announcement/Launch of Ice Lake-X (?)
- Announcement of Rocket Lake-S
- Announcement of some GPU
o_O
This would be a HUGE or BIG miracle.
BIG temperatures. BIG vulnerabilities. BIG Price. BIG benchmark scams. BIG water coolers hidden under the desk. BIG 1x Gen chipset support.
And "something Big to share" would be a big ass cooler to cool it down :P