Monday, October 14th 2019
Intel Clarifies on 10nm Desktop CPUs: Still on the Table, Likely in 2021
Intel in a quick rebuttal to the earlier reports from Monday, clarified that desktop processors based on the 10 nm silicon fabrication node are still on the company's roadmap. "We continue to make great progress on 10 nm, and our current roadmap of 10 nm products includes desktop," the company said in its one-liner. Monday's reports predicted a horror story where Intel would drag its 14 nm "Skylake" derived microarchitecture through to 2022, at which point it would be 7 years old.
The Tom's Hardware report that posts the statement, however, pins 14 nm to still last till 2021, if not the 2022 date predicted in the HardwareLuxx report. Intel will sell "Comet Lake" through 2020, succeeded by "Rocket Lake," which takes up much of 2021. Towards the end of 2021, Intel will release a desktop processor based on its matured 10 nm++ silicon fabrication node, which will lead the company into 2022, when it finally launches 7 nm EUV-based desktop chips.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
The Tom's Hardware report that posts the statement, however, pins 14 nm to still last till 2021, if not the 2022 date predicted in the HardwareLuxx report. Intel will sell "Comet Lake" through 2020, succeeded by "Rocket Lake," which takes up much of 2021. Towards the end of 2021, Intel will release a desktop processor based on its matured 10 nm++ silicon fabrication node, which will lead the company into 2022, when it finally launches 7 nm EUV-based desktop chips.
31 Comments on Intel Clarifies on 10nm Desktop CPUs: Still on the Table, Likely in 2021
I love Intel PR. Optimistic as always...
8-cores with Gen12 32 EUs(1x2x16) for 35W/65W/95W.
Cometlake-S/Tigerlake-S share the same socket.
All consumer 10nm supply is given to the mobile division. And here it's AMD who's a year behind.
Which makes me wonder how much 3950X will cost with no alternative from Intel; -)
Pricing can start to get bad if AMD wants to.
Mobile the most important, yeah, thats all everyone need , anything more demanding you can always rely on cloud :D
Where is the product? I've tried gaming on roadmaps but it just doesn't work.
Intel, stop lying, just admit defeat and move on. We know, shareholders won't like it. Let us know when you'll release that fantastic 2.3 Ghz base CPU, because we're still waiting. On a quad core part. In 2019-Q4.
iirc Intel originally projected release for 2016 and now..........2021........maybe.
When I'm eyeing an upgrade, I just look at what's on the market. If there's something that's significantly faster than what I have, available for the right price, I buy. I don't care whether it says Intel or AMD on the box, I don't care about nm (but I do care about TDP), I don't care about marketing departments' prowess.
"We continue to make great progress on 10nm, and our current roadmap of 10nm products includes desktop."
What people are overlooking is that this is a nonbinding assertion which doesn't mean anything at all as roadmaps change all the time. Intel can't even say for sure whether they will have desktop 10nm parts. From the look of it they won't, or, as mentioned in the article, those "desktop" parts could include CPUs for NUCs which are formally a desktop product, yet technically they are not.
10nm desktop parts are not canceled, not yet anyway. Intel added driver support for 10nm desktop parts just 1.5 months ago, they wouldn't do this if they had already canceled the parts. This support specifically mentions 95W desktop and entry workstation parts.
Plans are always subject to change, but as of right now Intel plans to launch Tiger Lake on desktop. If Tiger Lake is expected to ship around ~Q4 2020, then Intel will make their final decision for full-scale production by ~March-April next year. Until Intel knows, nobody can know, only speculate.
Desktop Ryzen is in a pretty good spot right now. Better IPC would be welcome, but it's not where AMD should pour a lot of resources at the moment. Those are better spent on server offers and, more importantly, on mobile Ryzen.