Intel cannonlake and 300 series motherboards by the end of 2017

Intel will launch its eighth generation of Intel Core “Cannonlake” processors to succeed the Kaby Lakes that will be released on the desktop in early 2017, a new report from Digitimes places these new processors alongside the 300 series motherboards at the end of the year. 2017 so there is still enough for your arrival.

This will be the Intel Cannonlake processors

Intel's Cannonlake processors will be accompanied by a new generation of 300 series motherboards that will include important innovations and, conversely, will include WiFi and USB 3.1 connectivity within the chipset itself. This would allow Intel not to depend on third parties for the inclusion of WiFi and USB 3.1 technologies in their motherboards, a move that will affect the main providers of these features such as Broadcom, Realtek and ASMedia. These new motherboards will arrive at least 10 months after the 200 series for Kaby Lake so they are not expected until Christmas of 2017 approximately or at most November. Recall that Cannonlake will be the third generation based on the LGA 1151 socket and the big news will be the move to a manufacturing process at 10nm Tri-Gate.

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Cannonlake's new 10nm manufacturing process will allow a breakthrough in energy efficiency in order to offer new ultra compact equipment with high performance and even some models with passive cooling and completely silent operation. Cannonlake could not be limited to a mere reduction in nm, Intel would take advantage to add some improvements in the microarchitecture focused on increasing the IPC of its chips. The arrival of Cannonlake at the end of 2017 plans a great dilemma since the Coffe Lake is expected for that same date, some processors that will be identical to the Cannonlake except for being manufactured in the current process at 14 nm Tri-Gate of Kaby Lake. A previous report indicates that the Cannonlake-S (desktop) chips would be within the Coffee Lake family, so the difference between the two is not exactly clear and possibly in the end we will only see the Cannonlake.

If we finally see a Coffe Lake generation at 14nm, this could be the first to bring 6-core processors to the mainstream sector, thereby breaking a 10-year stagnation by offering up to four-core chips within the general consumer range., something that we see seeing since the arrival of the Yorkfields manufactured at 65 nm in 2007. However, the latter would only occur in the case of the Coffe Lake-H, that is, the processors for portable equipment.

Comparison of the last eight generations Intel Core:

	Intel Sandy Bridge	Intel Ivy Bridge	Intel Haswell	Intel Broadwell	Intel Skylake	Intel Kaby Lake	Intel Coffee Lake	Intel Cannonlake

Architecture	Sandy Bridge	Ivy Bridge	Haswell	Broadwell	Skylake	Kaby Lake	Coffee Lake	Cannonlake
Fabrication process	32nm	22nm	22nm	14nm	14nm	14nm	14nm	10nm
Maximum cores	4	4	4	4	4	4	6	TBA
Chipset	6-Series "Cougar Point"	7-Series "Panther Point"	8-Series “Lynx Point”	9-Series "Wild Cat Point"	100-Series "Sunrise Point"	200-Series "Union Point"	TBA	TBA
Socket	LGA 1155	LGA 1155	LGA 1150	LGA 1150	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	TBA	TBA
Memory	DDR3	DDR3	DDR3	DDR3	DDR4 / DDR3L	DDR4 / DDR3L	DDR4	DDR4
TDP	35-95W	35-77W	35-84W	65W	35-95W	35-95W	TBA	TBA
Thunderbolt	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Platform	LGA Desktop	LGA Desktop	LGA Desktop	LGA Desktop	LGA Desktop	LGA Desktop	LGA Desktop	LGA Desktop
Launching	2011	2012	2013-2014	2015	2015	2016-2017	2018	TBA

Source: wccftech