Today Intel is in the process of reconversion, something like what happened to AMD between Bulldozer and Ryzen. AMD's situation at this time was very bad, leaving the company on the edge of the precipice. Intel is fortunate to have much more muscle and to be able to withstand this transition without major problems. Now we know that 10nm processors will bring a new socket.
Processors Alder lake-s will be the first to build on the 10nm lithography, specifically 10nm ++. A much more polished iteration of the 10nm, which should be good enough that there is no current shortage. Alder Lake-S will also have the new socket LGA1700, with a significant increase in pins.
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Intel Alder Lake-S will use a new socket
Comet Lake-S, the 10th Generation of processors that has not finished arriving, is still based on 14nm, but it has a new socket. Implementing a new socket has been necessary to reach 10 cores and 20 threads, and because of the new Boost technology. Changing the socket has brought Intel a lot of criticism and surely changing the socket again will bring more criticism. It is also true that AMD in the Threadripper has had to change the socket, to increase the number of cores to 64.
According to rumors, after the Comet Lake-S will come the Rocket Lake-S processors, based on 14nm, but with a but. Rocket Lake-S will have 8 cores and 16 threads, according to rumors, since it is an adaptation of Tiger Lake in 14nm. According to this information, this manufacturing process has a limit of 8 cores and would arrive between the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021.
By the end of 2021, Alder Lake-S processors could arrive, already based on 10nm, giving an important performance leap. Possibly Alder Lake-S is the last family of monolithic processors, if we pay attention to what they say from Intel. Jim Keller, a few days ago, indicated that they wanted to reduce the life of an architecture to 5 years and move to a system similar to AMD's MCM.
Source: MD
