The delay that Intel has with the jump to 10nm lithography is very large, being forced to maintain 14nm. The company also has trouble supplying processors under this already very hackneyed lithograph. In order to lighten their production lines, they would have discontinued Intel Coffee Lake Refresh processors (9th Generation). And it is expected that for him Q1 2021 the company launches the Rocket Lake-S processors.
Combining the Coffee Lake Refresh, the current Comet Lake and the next Rocket Lake-S on the market is unfeasible. For this reason Intel has decided to stop producing the entire 9th Generation of processors. This will ease the burden and thus mass-produce Rocket Lake family chips. Noting that the Comet Lake-S flew off the shelves, running out of stock for weeks.
[amazon box=»B0883MTJSR» title=»Intel Core i3-10100″ star_rating=»none» template=»table»]Intel Discontinues All Coffee Lake Refresh Family Processors
Although the discontinuation of these processors is announced, Intel will continue to supply orders for these processors until June 25, 2021. Of course, it will be supplied with these processors as long as there is a stock of them.
A move that coincides with recent rumors of an overtaking at the launch of the Rocket Lake-S. It seems that the AMD Ryzen 5000 processors have forced Intel to make a hasty move. Initially the 11th Generation of Intel processors was scheduled for the first half of Q2 2021.
Rocket Lake-S is a family of processors that leaves behind the Skylake architecture and will be based in Cypress Cove. Cypress Cove architecture is a import of Sunny Cove @ 10nm architecture, but produced in 14nm. Indicate that Sunny Cove is the architecture used to manufacture the Tiger Lake-U / H processors.
Due to importing at 14nm a 10nm architecture, Rocket Lake-S will lose cores. We will go from the maximum of 10 cores and 20 threads of the current Comet Lake-S, to the 8 cores and 16 threads in the upcoming Intel Rocket Laje-S processor family.
The new Rocket Lake-S processors, Intel reports, will offer a double-digit IPC improvement over the Core i9-10900K. Also, integrate the new Intel Xe graphics and support up to 20 PCI Express 4.0 lanes. Other implementations of these new processors is the support for DDR4 @ 3200MHz and the inclusion of USB 3.2 Gen2x2 @ 20Gbps ports.
