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Intel Cannonlake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Tiger Lake & Sapphire Rapid thread

TheF34RChannel

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Another milestone for 10nm: Cannon Lake on track and we’ve now taped in Ice Lake, our 2nd-generation 10nm product.
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https://twitter.com/intelnews/status/872844756845379584

(if twitter is good enough for Trumpy, it's good enough for me ugh)

Ice Lake launching in H2-2018 is a real possibility, maybe as soon as August-September (1 year after Coffee Lake-S 'K'). Also heard they taped in recently, not only 'now'.
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TheF34RChannel said:
In all likelihood, yes. Z400 and 500 series, respectively. Ice Lake-X may be very tasty, with its mainstream predecessor being an all newly designed chip instead of riding the SB train. It should still be 1151 but what revision?
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coffee lake is still 1151 BUT you need a z370 board, so even if canon and ice lake is 1151 you can bet its yet another new chipset because reasons.
 
Worth noting Cannonlake and Coffeelake are still Skylake revisions/shrinks, so Ice Lake is the first real new arch.

I'd say they have to launch Ice Lake in 2H 2018, otherwise they're going to get stomped (in price/performance) by Zen2 on 7nm.
 
they will probably get stomped in price a lot as zen2 is supposed to slot in to am4 sockets. so no new mobos if its true lol
 
Cannon Lake (Kaby on 10nm) is supposed to be early next year, so I can hardly see Ice Lake coming in Sept/Oct 2018, unless they are being pressed hard by the 7nm AMD CPU's and have invested many, many, more man years in pushing it out much earlier.
 
Isn't Icelake still just a iteration of the same base design? IE Haswell to Skylake like performance difference, it's not an entirely new architecture as Zen is. I'm under the impression Intel only recently started work on a genuinely ground up new design and that we won't see it till ~2020 at the earliest. I also feel like if it was a completely new architecture it would have gotten away from the 'lake' naming scheme. It should offer increased IPC where as Kaby/Cannon won't, just increased clocks(for the same core count, the 6 core Cannonlake might reduce speed a little).

As such it's not too exciting either, also I find it extremely unlikely that it will be available a year from now, not sure where the op is quoting the maybe available august next year from, but CPU tape outs for x86 chips tend to be 18+ months and tape outs are generally increasing with process complexity so I'm not sure I'd even bank on early 2019 for Icelake.
 
I have seen a report which talked about it requiring a new 1151 v2 socket and new chipset. Intel will clearly recommend the new chipset. Other reports say it should be compatible and 6 core CPUs have shown up on SiSoftware Sandra running on Kaby Lake.

http://ranker.sisoftware.net/show_r...d4ecddefd6e5d3f587ba8aacc9ac91a187f4c9f1&l=en

It would be an odd choice to force upgraders to buy a new motherboard when the CPU architecture and socket are exactly the same. The new features in the Z300 chipset don't really add that much.
 
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