By Darren Allan
Is Intel about to bring six-core CPUs into its mainstream processor offerings? Apparently so, although you’ll have to wait till the year after next for them to arrive.
Yes, according to a leaked slide, Intel is bringing forth Coffee Lake (yet another ‘lake’ – and a particularly tasty sounding one) in 2018, and this will be based on a 14nm process and offer six-core beasts as well as the usual dual and quad flavors.
Previously, Intel has pushed out six-core CPUs, but only in the form of enthusiast models with wallet-damaging price tags. Obviously, mainstream offerings would be far more accessibly priced.
It’s also worth noting that we were led to believe Kaby Lake processors – which have just started shipping to device manufacturers – were to be the last outing on 14nm, with Intel’s new scheme of three releases (Broadwell, refinement to Skylake, final hurrah with Kaby Lake). But it seems that Coffee Lake will be the final, even further refined, take.
Cannonlake (which you may previously have heard referred to as Skymont) will be the first step down to 10nm and is still expected to kick off next year.
Skylake-X next year
ZDNet, which spotted these developments, also noted that Intel will …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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