Yesterday based on Dell's presentation revealing Intel's processor plans, attracted public attention. What was said for a long time at the level of rumors was confirmed at least in some official documents. However, we will certainly hear the comments of Intel representatives regarding the pace of development of 10-nm technology tomorrow at the quarterly reporting conference, but they are unlikely to differ much from the position voiced for several months in a row. It says that the first client systems based on 10nd generation 10nm processors will hit the shelves by the end of the year, and server processors will switch to 2020nm technology in XNUMX.
Dell's presentation does not contradict Intel's official position that the first client 10nm processors will appear this year, and these will be mobile 10nm models of the Ice Lake-U family with a TDP level of no more than 15-28W. Another thing is that they are promised by Dell in the second quarter, albeit in limited quantities. Apparently, several models of ultra-thin laptops based on them will be presented at the June Computex 2019 exhibition. By the way, Lenovo has previously demonstrated similar intentions, so not only Dell was lucky in this sense.
On site pages industry analysts commented on this information leak. But we should start with the fact that Intel representatives refused to comment on this data to the site employees, citing the tradition not to comment on rumors publicly.
But representatives of Tirias Research urged not to draw hasty conclusions from just two slides from the presentation. Firstly, one of them refers to Intel's plans in the mobile segment, and the other in the commercial one. For this company, according to analysts, a certain amount of conservatism in the commercial PC segment can be expressed in restraining the transition to new lithographic standards. In the consumer sector, the transition to 10nm technology may start earlier, according to the source. Moreover, he is confident that 10nm Intel processors will appear in both the desktop and server segments in the second half of this year.
Priority in the development of 10-nm technology can indeed be given to mobile processors from Intel, experts from Tirias Research continue. Now that Intel has announced plans for multibillion-dollar investments in expanding production lines producing 14-nm processors, it simply has no reason to rush to abandon the corresponding technical process. The server and commercial segments are less sensitive to the relevance of the lithographic technologies used, as analysts explain. Moreover, Intel will try to compensate for the delay in the development of 10nm technology by expanding the functionality of 14nm processors. For example, by adding new sets of commands like DL Boost.
Source: 3dnews.ru