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Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com)
Intel said this week that it is once again delaying the mass production of its 10-nanometer "Cannon Lake" chips. The company insists that it is already building the chips in low volumes, but said it "now expects 10-nanometer volume production to shift to 2019 [rather than the end of 2018]." From a report: Intel is on solid footing, in other words, though pesky challenges remain in manufacturing its next-generation 10nm parts. CEO Brian Krzanich acknowledged as much during an earnings call, attributing the delay to difficulties in getting 10nm yields to where they need to be. So rather than push to ship 10nm in volume this year, Intel is giving itself some additional time to sort things out.
You can't VMotion running VMs between Intel and AMD ESXi hosts. So it's not like I can just drop an AMD server into the cluster even if I wanted too. So, I'm kinda stuck with staying with Intel.
Quad core or desktop Cannon Lake was cancelled loooong ago, so now it's strictly a dual core / quad thread CPU for low power. Thus while this LPDDR4 support is great news it won't be suitable for Macbook Pro. When Cannon Lake production ramps up though it's suitable for the Apple "Macbook".
Yes I would like to see a high end Apple netbook with 32GB RAM lol, afterall I always run out of RAM way easier than I run out of CPU.
I bet the PCIe SSD has enough I/O to run slashdot with all its users.
Interesting will be if "Whiskey Lake" has LPDDR3 or LPDDR4 support. The former would be heinous but this might be yet another Skylake respin.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/whiskey_lake
Architecture
Key changes from Coffee Lake
Package and pin-compatible with Cannon Lake U
Die from Coffee Lake U and Cannon Lake PCH
Yea right I have a scoop for you. Whiskey Lake is still stuck with 16GB LPDDR3, if you want 32GB in a trendy laptop or a tablet you'll have to wait for Ice Lake in 2019, or hope someone does a Cannon Lake laptop or tablet with 32GB in 2019.
The best way to describe spectre is that's it's fundamental to how all out of order instruction processors work. All out of order processors will suffer from spectre.
Getting rid of spectre would require the return to in order execution at a MASSIVE performance penalty, more than 50% and probably closer to 75% drop in compute power. It's mitigateable but it's going to have hundreds of edge cases that will be found for years so it's going to take a long time (years) and a lot of rewriting in the fundamental parts of OS's to negate Spectre based attacks.
Spectre is fundamental to the design assumptions of all modern processors, as I like to say it's the bug that's going to give and give and give. They probably won't have found most of the edge cases until after 2020 so we should expect yearly/quarterly patches to spectre like attacks for a long time.
One thing that's not mentioned in a lot of the articles but the timing based attacks that comprise the spectre attacks were discovered years ago. It took several years for someone to find and demonstrate the first version of these attacks but most experts think this is just the beginning and that we're looking toward years of these type of attacks on all aspects of operating systems and CPU's.
In other words, spectre was just the first timing attack, there will be more, probably a lot more now that there is an actual example of how to do them.