By Darren Allan
Intel has spilled the first official (though admittedly scant) details on a future generation of processors that will be known as Ice Lake, and which will utilize a 10nm+ process in their manufacturing.
As you may be aware, Intel has the big reveal of its Coffee Lake CPUs – the eighth generation of the Core family, following on from Kaby Lake – planned for next Monday. This will be the fourth iteration of 14nm processors, and effectively a second optimization phase for this technology, with Intel promising chips which are between 15% to 30% faster than Kaby Lake.
Next in line will be Cannon Lake, which will be the first time Intel drops to 10nm, a smaller process meaning that more transistors can be packed into the compact square which is a CPU – and therefore more power (and indeed there are guaranteed to be power efficiency improvements, and that’s almost more important than outright performance in these days of increasingly mobile computing).
Then we’ll see Ice Lake, which Intel boasted will have “amazing performance and responsiveness”, further noting that: “The Ice Lake processor family is a successor to the 8th generation Intel Core processor family. These processors utilize …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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