Wednesday, October 7th 2020
Intel Confirms Q1-2021 Launch of 11th Gen Core "Rocket Lake"
Intel VP and GM of Client Computing Group Desktop, Workstations and Gaming, John Bonini, in a Medium blog post renewed the company's commitment to gaming, by announcing the tentative launch timeline of the company's next-generation Core desktop processors. The 11th Gen Intel Core "Rocket Lake" processors will launch in Q1-2021. "I'm also happy to confirm that the next generation 11th Gen Intel Core desktop processors (codenamed "Rocket Lake") is coming in the first quarter of 2021 and will provide support for PCIe 4.0. It'll be another fantastic processor for gaming, and we're excited to disclose more details in the near future," he said.
It's important to note the timing of this post. AMD later today (8th October) will announce its next-generation Ryzen processors based on the "Zen 3" microarchitecture, and is widely expected to push the IPC envelope even further. This would mean that from the near-parity AMD enjoys with Intel's "Skylake" based "Comet Lake" processor, AMD would begin to achieve a clear IPC lead over Intel for the first time in over 15 years. An alleged Intel 500-series chipset motherboard launch-related slide leaked earlier this week pins the chipset's launch in mid-March 2021. Given that Intel tends to launch new processors and chipsets in tandem, this would possibly put the launch of "Rocket Lake" toward the very end of Q1-2021. "Rocket Lake" is expected to introduce Intel's first IPC gains in the desktop segment since 2015. The chips use new "Cypress Cove" CPU cores, which are a 14 nm backport of "Willow Cove."
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John Bonini (Medium)
It's important to note the timing of this post. AMD later today (8th October) will announce its next-generation Ryzen processors based on the "Zen 3" microarchitecture, and is widely expected to push the IPC envelope even further. This would mean that from the near-parity AMD enjoys with Intel's "Skylake" based "Comet Lake" processor, AMD would begin to achieve a clear IPC lead over Intel for the first time in over 15 years. An alleged Intel 500-series chipset motherboard launch-related slide leaked earlier this week pins the chipset's launch in mid-March 2021. Given that Intel tends to launch new processors and chipsets in tandem, this would possibly put the launch of "Rocket Lake" toward the very end of Q1-2021. "Rocket Lake" is expected to introduce Intel's first IPC gains in the desktop segment since 2015. The chips use new "Cypress Cove" CPU cores, which are a 14 nm backport of "Willow Cove."
13 Comments on Intel Confirms Q1-2021 Launch of 11th Gen Core "Rocket Lake"
"Rocket Lake" is expected to introduce Intel's first IPC gains in the desktop segment since 2015."
This means Intel had nothing cooking in their labs in 2015, they must have totally dropped R&D back then since it took them 5 year to make any architectural advancements again.
Can't even imagine how badly run Intel was by Brian Krzanich at that time.
Give us the discrete GPU. Give us something interesting. Throw a cat among the AMD and Nvidia GPU pigeons:rolleyes:
Bob Swan and its entire team of management needs to be fired and engineers need to be brought in their places.
Well, at least it is official and confirmed.
Peeps r stoked, not.
Right Intel are the underdog's now ,I'm going to have to start backing them again because we needs competition not this.
8 cores 12 threads , sighh, come on Intel you can do better, get that new fab of yours onit, u gits, were(consumers) getting stiffed again on price :p :D