Intel announces that they already have the 10nm finished, which is important because the Ice Lake will benefit from it, since it will be for the second generation of 10nm and will come after the Cannon Lake, the first on the market in 10nm.

Although the Coffee Lake processors have not yet been seen and for the Cannon Lake there is still a little left, Intel has revealed on its Twitter account that the Ice Lake processors will benefit from the 10nm manufacturing process. It may seem irrelevant, but this represents an important advance in what is the roadmap of Intel processors in relation to the 10nm that will arrive in 2018. We remember that the 10nm will have its starting point in Cannon Lake, the which will arrive during the first half of next year.

Intel has left behind the tick-tock system, which relied on a new manufacturing process as input and a refinement of the micro architecture as output. The new system is the PAO cycle, which is the abbreviation for Process-Architecutrue-Optimization and which includes in it a reduction of nodes and two architecture optimization processes, instead of the first system, which was based on a node and an optimization process.

This desktop process began with the Skylake as Process, the Kaby Lake as Architecture and the Coffee Lake as Optimization, therefore, we would be waiting for the Coffee Lake, to close the manufacturing process of the 14nm. It is assumed that once the Coffee Lake arrive, the next thing will be the Cannon Lake, which would arrive during the first half of 2018, since apparently they have been delayed a few weeks (they were planned for the end of 2017).

Coffee Lake should arrive, according to the first data in the month of September / October and they will have up to six cores and the Cannon Lake should arrive in principle at the end of this year, but in the end it will not be like that, according to some information that has come out from Intel itself in recent weeks. The 10nm manufacturing process will be implemented in SoC. This is an important advance, since the Cannon Lake will be intended for laptops and NUCs, while the Ice Lake would already be Intel's new processors for desktop computers.

Source: wccftech