First image of the die of an intel cannon lake processor

Thanks to TechInsights analysts, we have the first image of the die of an Intel Cannon Lake processor manufactured with the company's advanced 10nm Tri-Gate process, a generation that is already several years behind schedule.

The first image of the die of an Intel Cannon Lake processor shows the problems of the 10 nm

The 10nm manufacturing process is being a source of endless problems for Intel, making it currently viable only for very small and simple processors. The analyzed chip is a Cannon Lake die of only 71 mm2. Computerbase has done some research to calculate the pack size at 45mm x 24mm for the chip, which totals about 71mm2, and it comes with a second chip installed next to it of just 47mm.

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Cannon Lake's main advantage in its 10nm manufacturing process, a priori a major advance over the 14nm process, which debuted with a Broadwell-U processor, which had an array size of 82mm, thus it can be deduced that the 10nm is not finally a breakthrough as expected.

This new processor includes two processing cores with a base frequency of 2.20 GHz and a turbo speed of 3.20 GHz. Its features continue with a GT2 GPU in the matrix, although it is deactivated due to the problems of its manufacturing process. It is also mentioned that it features a 4MB L3 cache.

One of the biggest additions to Cannon Lake is the inclusion of the AVX512 instruction set, and a larger GPU configured to have a maximum of 40 execution units, compared to 24 at Coffee Lake. Intel is not expected to be able to manufacture large quantities of these processors until next year 2019.

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