It is revealed in the Linux drivers that the Intel Comet Lake processors will be based on the 14nm lithography and will replace the Coffee Lake.
Currently at Intel they have a big problem to meet the demand for processors, because it exceeds their production capacity. It has been revealed that difficulties in meeting demand should increase in the second quarter. Thanks to the update of the company's Linux DRM kernel drivers and the 'coreboot', very interesting information about Comet Lake processors has been revealed. These processors should arrive in the next few months.
Intel Comet Lake will arrive in the middle of this year.
These processors are characterized by being the replacement of the Coffee Lake and Whiskey Lake processors. In the description of this new driver in Linux DRM the following is read: "Comet Lake comes off of Coffee Lake". Everything indicates that the Comet Lake will be the umpteenth rehash of the Skylake processors and that they will be based on 14nm.
You can also read that these new Comet Lake processors will use the Gen9 iGPU, which came with the Skylake. This generation of graphics has also been used in later processors than the 14nm based Skylake. Also note that the GT1 and GT2 configurations are mentioned. The GT symbology indicates the type of Graphic Technology.
We move on to the 'coreboot', an open source project that is intended to replace the BIOS and the UEFI system and contains vital information about the new generation of processors. On Github, Comet Lake-U processors are mentioned, intended for laptops and which will have a maximum of six cores. In addition we will also have the Comet Lake-H and the Comet Lake-S that will have a maximum of ten cores.
Apparently these processors will arrive to try to overshadow the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series. These 7nm lithography processors from AMD were unveiled at CES 2019 and will arrive at Computex 2019, they say. Intel processors would also arrive during Computex.
Source: TH
