- Intel's 10nm process ready for full scale deployment
- First mainstream 10nm Ice Lake processors to ship in June
- Intel to release Ice Lake successor in 2020 with 10nm Tiger Lake processors
At last night's investor event, Intel made several fundamental announcements, including about the company's plans to quickly transition to manufacturing on . But along with this, specific information was also voiced about how Intel is going to use its 10-nm process technology. As expected, the company will introduce the first mass-produced 10nm Ice Lake chips in June, but in addition, another family of processors was introduced into the plans, which will be produced according to 10nm standards - Tiger Lake.
Ice Lake deliveries start in June
Intel has officially confirmed that the first mainstream 10nm mobile processors, codenamed Ice Lake, will indeed start shipping as early as June, with Ice Lake-based devices going on sale during the Christmas season. The company promises that the new mobile platform, using these advanced processors, will offer about 3 times faster wireless speeds, 2 times faster video transcoding speeds, 2 times faster integrated graphics speeds, and 2,5 times faster speed than the previous platform. .3–XNUMX times when solving artificial intelligence problems.
According to the company's plans, which became known earlier, the first 10-nm processors will belong to energy-efficient classes U and Y and have four cores and a Gen11 graphics core. At the same time, as follows from the statements of Intel, Ice Lake will be not only a notebook product. In the first half of 2020, based on this design, it is planned to release server processors as well.
Ice Lake will not be the only solution from the company that will be produced on a 10-nm process technology. The same technology will roll out to other products during 2019-2020, including client processors, Intel Agilex FPGA chips, Intel Nervana NNP-I AI processor, general purpose GPU, and 5G-enabled system-on-a-chip .
Ice Lake will be followed by Tiger Lake
One of the most important points for the company to apply 10nm technology will be the release of the next generation of processors for personal computers - Tiger Lake. Intel plans to introduce processors under this code name during the first half of 2020. And judging by the available data, they will replace Ice Lake in the mobile segment: Intel plans to talk about energy-efficient modifications of classes U and Y with four computing cores.
According to Gregory Bryant, head of Intel's client products team, Tiger Lake processors will have a new core architecture and Intel Xe (Gen12) class graphics that will allow them to work with 8K monitors as well. Although it was not specifically mentioned, Tiger Lake appears to be hosting the Willow Cove microarchitecture, a further development of the Sunny Cove microarchitecture implemented in Ice Lake.
Bryant confirmed that Intel already has working samples of Tiger Lake processors that can run the Windows operating system and the Chrome browser, which suggests that the development process is at one of the final stages.
Unfortunately, no technical details about Tiger Lake have been made public, but Intel did not hesitate to bring up some performance data for these processors. For example, Tiger Lake, which has 96 graphics processing units, promises four times the graphics speed compared to today's Whiskey Lake processors. As for computing performance, the comparison is made with Amber Lake processors, which future quad-core Tiger Lake processors promise to outperform twice with the same TDP, reduced to 9W. However, all this superiority is ensured primarily by the extensive increase in the number of cores and computing units, the path to which was opened by 10-nm technology.
Also among the advantages of Tiger Lake recorded a fourfold advantage in video encoding speed and a 2,5-3 times superiority compared to Whiskey Lake in the performance of solving artificial intelligence problems.
It is worth noting that, as in the case of 14nm technology, Intel has planned a phased improvement of the 10nm process technology. And Tiger Lake, scheduled for 2020, apparently will be produced using improved 10+ nm technology.
Source: 3dnews.ru