Intel indefinitely delays cannonlake

Intel has dominated the microprocessor market since 2006 when it launched the Core 2 Duo, which represented an impressive improvement in performance and efficiency compared to the old Pentium D with Netburst microarchitecture and managed to overcome an AMD that was experiencing a sweet moment with chips that offered a performance superior to those of its rival.

Since then Intel has been following a Tick-Tock strategy that has been repeated in two-year cycles with the Tick being a reduction in the manufacturing process and the Tock introducing a new microarchitecture.

Intel has already had trouble maintaining the Tick-Tock cycle with Broadwell processors (scheduled for 2014) which were delayed one year due to problems in the 14nm Tri-Gate manufacturing process, instead Devil's Canyon were introduced which are a small improvement of the Haswells at 22nm and finally the Broadwells hit the market this year.

Now it seems that Intel is having problems again, this time with the manufacturing process at 10nm Tri-Gate so it has indefinitely delayed the arrival of the Cannonlake processors that were planned for 2016 with the aforementioned process at 10nm as the successors of the imminent Skylake at 14nm Tri-Gate.

Instead, the semiconductor giant will introduce the Kaby Lake processors manufactured in the same process to Skylake's 14nm Tri-Gate process, a move that appears to be very similar to the introduction of the aforementioned Devil's Canyon in the face of the Broadwell delay..

Source: techspot