4 ms·
"Laptop vendors are reported to be preparing to skip Cannon Lake and move to its planned successor Ice Lake." How does that work? Wouldn't the successor also b
by sime2009 9y ago
"Laptop vendors are reported to be preparing to skip Cannon Lake and move to its planned successor Ice Lake."
How does that work? Wouldn't the successor also be on a 10nm process? Or at least facing similar delays?
- lvh 9y agoSort-of. The successor (Ice Lake) is planned to be on a 10nm+ process (so an advanced, 2nd gen version of the 10nm process). However, if the issues with Cannon Lake are mostly about moving to a smaller feature size (i.e. it's mostly a die shrink), and Ice Lake is more of an arch update than a feature size reach, it makes sense that Cannon Lake gets pushed back more than Ice Lake would be. (Yes, it'd necessarily be later -- but if you tackle most of the hard problems now, maybe not _that much_ later, and it makes sense to skip a gen.)
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]