Intel begins production of cannonlake
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Cannonlake will be the first Intel processors to be manufactured with its advanced 10nm Tri-Gate process and will arrive to succeed the Kaby Lake. Intel has already given the green light to start up the factory responsible for the production of the first units as a prototype to be able to do all the tests on the new chips and make the latest adjustments before starting mass production.
Intel begins manufacturing the first samples of its Cannonlake processors for testing
The first prototypes of Intel Cannonlake will be produced during the current quarter and if everything goes according to plan the mass production of the new CPUs of the semiconductor giant will begin during the first quarter of 2017 so that it can reach users in the second half of the year. Intel claims that its advanced 10nm Tri-Gate process improves energy efficiency to the point of increasing performance by 50% while maintaining lower power consumption than chips at 14nm.
Let's remember that before we see Cannonlake we will have the Kaby Lake, a new generation of Intel processors at 14 nm that consists of an optimization of the Skylake microarchitecture to achieve slightly improve its performance while maintaining the same manufacturing process, it is essentially a step very similar to the arrival of the Devil's Canyon to replace the Haswells.
Intel Cannonlake will have to be measured with the new AMD Summit Ridge processors that will be manufactured by Global Foundries with its 14nm Fin FET process and that promise a huge leap forward compared to current AMD FX Vishera manufactured in already very outdated 32nm SOI. AMD Summit Ridge is based on the promising AMD Zen microarchitecture that provides 40% more IPC than Excavator, so we are talking about a 75% improvement in IPC compared to the first Bulldozer-based processors that hit the market. At the end of 2011. With these data, Summit Ridge would be in a position to face an almighty Intel Core i7 5960X, the most powerful processor in the Intel Haswell-E series.
Source: wccftech
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