Thursday, June 4th 2020
No Intel "Rocket Lake-S" or "Ice Lake-X" This Year?
A roadmap slide from an Intel Partner Connect presentation suggests that the company's client-segment processor lineup will be unchanged for the rest of 2020, with the company briskly launching its 10th generation "Comet Lake-S" desktop processor lineup through May-June, and "Comet Lake-H" a month prior. The Core X "Cascade Lake-X" processor lineup will continue to lead the company in the high core-count HEDT segment, with no indications of new models, at least none higher than 18 cores.
More importantly, this slide dulls expectations of the company refreshing its desktop process segment just before Holiday 2020 with the 11th generation "Rocket Lake-S" silicon that has next-gen "Willow Cove" CPU cores, Gen12 Xe integrated graphics, and PCIe gen 4.0 connectivity, especially with engineering samples of the chips already hitting the radar. Intel is expected to launch 10 nm "Ice Lake-SP" Xeon enterprise processors in 2020, and there was hope for some of this IP to power Intel's next HEDT platform, the fabled "Ice Lake-X," especially with AMD's "Castle Peak" 3rd gen Threadrippers dominating this segment. While there's little doubt that the slide may have originated from Intel, its context must be studied. Partner Connect is a platform for Intel to interact with its channel partners (distributors, retailers, system integrators, etc), and information about future products is far more restricted on these slides, than presentations intended for large OEMs, motherboard manufacturers, etc. Then again, with the COVID-19 pandemic throwing supply chains off rails, it wouldn't surprise us if this slide spells Gospel.
Sources:
Int8bldr (ASUS ROG Forums), HXL (Twitter), VideoCardz
More importantly, this slide dulls expectations of the company refreshing its desktop process segment just before Holiday 2020 with the 11th generation "Rocket Lake-S" silicon that has next-gen "Willow Cove" CPU cores, Gen12 Xe integrated graphics, and PCIe gen 4.0 connectivity, especially with engineering samples of the chips already hitting the radar. Intel is expected to launch 10 nm "Ice Lake-SP" Xeon enterprise processors in 2020, and there was hope for some of this IP to power Intel's next HEDT platform, the fabled "Ice Lake-X," especially with AMD's "Castle Peak" 3rd gen Threadrippers dominating this segment. While there's little doubt that the slide may have originated from Intel, its context must be studied. Partner Connect is a platform for Intel to interact with its channel partners (distributors, retailers, system integrators, etc), and information about future products is far more restricted on these slides, than presentations intended for large OEMs, motherboard manufacturers, etc. Then again, with the COVID-19 pandemic throwing supply chains off rails, it wouldn't surprise us if this slide spells Gospel.
21 Comments on No Intel "Rocket Lake-S" or "Ice Lake-X" This Year?
dedicatedteam designated for leaks o_OIf not, they should definitely pay them!
I only focus on the leading new releases, so for me it´s on AMD to push the industry.
Intel seemed to recover and rethink its strategy, but they cripple their non-Z like before.
The faster AMD iterates, the more it hurts intel. So give us Zen3 fast.
Ice Lake-X is based on Ice Lake-SP, which should start shipping this summer. So technically Intel can launch Ice Lake-X whenever they want this fall or later. Ice Lake-X will be fairly low volume, so supply should not be an issue. The question is rather when Intel wants to launch it vs. what AMD have to offer.That depends on the use case. Workstations are built for a purpose, and the only thing that matters is performance in benchmarks related to the desired workload. I wonder how many base their decision on Cinebench scores vs. how many actually uses Cinema4D, I would not be surprised if the factor is 1000:1 or more.Considering your profile is listing an i9-7980XE, you should probably wait for something to offer a substantial performance improvement.
But I get what you're saying. While AMD have come a long way since the launch of Zen, they still have far to go.
These image would be fit.
Their 10 core already relegated to peasant mainstream. AMD has 16 core in there, so their remnants was 18 core only. Only one single SKU doesn't look so great :D
But what if you want a PC which is kick-ass for gaming and for photo/video editing or coding?
Doesn't matter if you didn't like chicken bucket, there's still tons out there are willing to buy.Better than have to wait for same old burger with inflated asking price :p