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Intel's 10nm 'Cannon Lake' Processors Won't Arrive Until Late 2019 (digitaltrends.com)
At the company's second quarter 2018 financial results conference call, Intel chief engineering officer Venkata Renduchintala said the "Cannon Lake" 10mn processors won't appear in products until the 2019 holiday season. "The systems on shelves that we expect in holiday 2019 will be client systems, with data center products to follow shortly after," Renduchintala said. Interim CEO Robert Swan went on to tout the company's "very good lineup" of 14nm products. Digital Trends reports: "Recall that 10nm strives for a very aggressive density improvement target beyond 14nm, almost 2.7x scaling," Renduchintala said during the call. "And really, the challenges that we're facing on 10nm is delivering on all the revolutionary modules that ultimately deliver on that program." Although he acknowledged that pushing back 10nm presents a "risk and a degree of delay" in the company's road map, Intel is quite pleased with the "resiliency" of its 14nm roadmap. He said the company delivered an excess of 70 percent performance improvement over the last few years. Meanwhile, Intel's 10nm process should be in an ideal state to mass produce chips towards the end of 2019.
Intel's Cannon Lake chip is essentially a shrink of its seventh-generation "Kaby Lake" processor design. Given the previous launch window, the resulting chips presumably fell under the company's eighth-generation banner despite the older design. But with mass production pushed back to late 2019, the 10nm chips will fall under Intel's ninth-generation umbrella along with CPUs based on its upcoming "Ice Lake" design. Intel claims that its 10nm chips will provide 25 percent increased performance over their 14nm counterparts. Even more, they will supposedly consume 50 percent less power than their 14nm counterparts.
Intel's Cannon Lake chip is essentially a shrink of its seventh-generation "Kaby Lake" processor design. Given the previous launch window, the resulting chips presumably fell under the company's eighth-generation banner despite the older design. But with mass production pushed back to late 2019, the 10nm chips will fall under Intel's ninth-generation umbrella along with CPUs based on its upcoming "Ice Lake" design. Intel claims that its 10nm chips will provide 25 percent increased performance over their 14nm counterparts. Even more, they will supposedly consume 50 percent less power than their 14nm counterparts.
Apple should just switch to AMD CPUs first. At least that avoids a big architectural jump. That could buy them time to ensure a flawless transition to ARM CPUs sometime later on. People are already unhappy with the current state of affairs in the Mac world. A bungled transition to ARM CPUs could potentially destroy the Mac brand.
At this point it looks like Intel needs a major re-design of its CPUs to mitigate all the Spectre variants and associated issues. Since they are not doing that (cheaper to spread FUD about the competition and downplay the problems, not enough people suing them) the best thing you can do now is buy AMD.
AMD CPUs are better for many reasons anyway.
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10nm has been out for cell phones for years.
nm are just labels when it comes to chips. The manufacturers call it whatever they want. There is no mass-production chip that actually has meaningful features measured at 10nm, much less 7nm.
Intel manufacturing is about level with the competitors, possibly slightly ahead. This however is a massive change from most of chip history, where mass produced Intel chips could be counted on to be at least one and sometimes two generations ahead of mass produced competitors.
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AMD CPUs are better for many reasons anyway.
Yeah, unless you need the best single-threaded performance available.
Quit being a zealot. Use the right tool for the job at hand.
They got ahead of the competition through anticompetitive business practices, and by deliberately compromising security. You can call that clever tricks, but I call it sociopathic behavior.
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