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400 and 495 chipsets leaked for intel comet and ice lake

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The latest Intel server chipset drivers (10.1.18010.8141) are compatible with the Comet Lake and Ice Lake PCH-LP (Platform Controller Hub - Low Power). The update also serves as an indication that the respective processors are on the way.

Intel 400 and 495 chipsets leaked for Comet Lake and Ice Lake processors

The text file reveals that Intel will use the 400 series trademark to refer to the Comet Lake (CML) chipset. This makes perfect sense because Comet Lake is the planned successor to replace Coffee Lake (CFL), which is affiliated with the nickname of the 300 series. And yes, Comet Lake will stick with the 14nm process node.

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Comet Lake CPUs will bring to life the 10, 000 series of Intel processors, while the 400 series refers to the chipsets present in future motherboards.

Comet Lake processors will have up to 10 cores, an interesting jump in the number of cores for the mainstream sector of the market.

Ice Lake will be 10nm laptop processors

On the other hand, the Ice Lake (ICL) chipset, which will replace Cannon Lake (CNL), will bear the mark of the 495 series. Cannon Lake only had one processor released and it was the i3-8121U.

Ice Lake aims to change consumer perception of Intel's 10nm node and hopefully help the company forget about the entire Cannon Lake fiasco. The new processors are expected to have a 10nm + node and have some eye-catching features, such as compatibility with the Thunderbolt 3 standard and Wi-Fi 6 (also known as 802.11ax). Not to mention, the Ice Lake chips will have twice the L2 cache capacity that Intel hasn't changed since the Nehalem period.

In addition, Ice Lake will also implement Gen11 integrated graphics with 1 32-bit teraflop and 2 floating-point 16-bit teraflops.

Intel's latest (leaked) roadmap suggests Comet Lake will arrive in the last quarter of the year, while Ice Lake won't arrive until 2020.

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