A recent job listing for a position at Intel, which has since been removed, prompted fears of a delay in its 10nm Cannonlake chips coming to market. The vacancy said the successful candidate would be involved in the mass production of a 10nm chip "approximately two years" from the posting date.
That would make a first half of 2018 launch the target for Cannonlake, but Intel has felt compelled to deny this and instead issued a statement confirming the first chips manufactured on the 10nm process will be rolling off the conveyor belts in the second half of 2017.
Intel claims the job vacancy contained a number of errors, specifically writing that the "first 10-nanometer product is planned for the second half of 2017." Good-o. The aforementioned 10nm process is reportedly going to be used for three of its upcoming chipsets - Cannonlake, Icelake and Tigerlake.
So at least we’re getting the first 10nm chips around a year earlier than we’d at first feared, although it’s still a year later than the originally scheduled 2016 launch. This was due to a number of technical challenges involved in the die shrink, and it’s prompted to what Intel representatives have claimed is the end of Moore’s Law.
Between then and now of course we’ve got the 14nm processors which kicked off with Skylake. By all accounts this die shrink has only accounted for a very minor leap in performance, but we’re hoping the upcoming 14nm Kaby Lake should have more to offer from a gaming point of view.
With a number of high-profile changes coming to the CPU market, not least of which AMD’s Zen, which are you holding out for and why? Do you think it’s worth getting a Skylake upgrade now, or is holding on for Kaby Lake the logical move?
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That would make a first half of 2018 launch the target for Cannonlake, but Intel has felt compelled to deny this and instead issued a statement confirming the first chips manufactured on the 10nm process will be rolling off the conveyor belts in the second half of 2017.
Intel claims the job vacancy contained a number of errors, specifically writing that the "first 10-nanometer product is planned for the second half of 2017." Good-o. The aforementioned 10nm process is reportedly going to be used for three of its upcoming chipsets - Cannonlake, Icelake and Tigerlake.
So at least we’re getting the first 10nm chips around a year earlier than we’d at first feared, although it’s still a year later than the originally scheduled 2016 launch. This was due to a number of technical challenges involved in the die shrink, and it’s prompted to what Intel representatives have claimed is the end of Moore’s Law.
Between then and now of course we’ve got the 14nm processors which kicked off with Skylake. By all accounts this die shrink has only accounted for a very minor leap in performance, but we’re hoping the upcoming 14nm Kaby Lake should have more to offer from a gaming point of view.
With a number of high-profile changes coming to the CPU market, not least of which AMD’s Zen, which are you holding out for and why? Do you think it’s worth getting a Skylake upgrade now, or is holding on for Kaby Lake the logical move?
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