Intel 'comet lake

Intel has been increasing the number of cores in its desktop segment with Core i9 processors and its 8 'Coffee Lake-R' cores. Now, apparently, a new Comet Lake-S core is looming on the horizon, bringing the number of physical cores up to 10.

Intel will increase the number of cores with 'Comet Lake-S' on the desktop

A rumor coming in from the Far East seems to indicate that Intel is planning to put more cores on the main line of desktop processors with a new family to be called Comet Lake.

Intel Comet Lake-S desktop processors are rumored to have up to 10 cores with the same current 14nm node.

The rumor comes directly from Taiwanese forums where it was mentioned that a 10-core CPU under the Comet Lake-S family was mentioned during a partner meeting. The family will continue to build on the 14nm process node and was recently included in an updated DT / IOTG roadmap. The roadmap is updated quarterly, but we haven't seen it in public yet.

10 cores with the same 14nm node

There aren't much more details, at the moment, except for the mention that the processor would use a dual ring bus interconnect. The other thing is that a 10 core single array design would be much more difficult to cool down. Especially when today's 8-core / 16-thread Intel processors generate too much heat. Since the process is not slowing down in the near future and the core architecture is the same (14nm), that will obviously generate more heat. We will see how Intel manages to design this chip in a 14 nm node and that does not generate overheating problems.

Anyway, take the information with tweezers until we can confirm it or new sources emerge.

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