In some ways it's been closer to tick/tock/tweak/tweak/tweak, which is just another sign that improving process nodes isn't something that we should rely on any

In some ways it's been closer to tick/tock/tweak/tweak/tweak, which is just another sign that improving process nodes isn't something that we should rely on anymore. For this cycle the 'tick' (Cannon Lake) was pushed back a year (with two 'tweaks', Kaby Lake Refresh and Coffee Lake, taking its place). Cannon Lake devices are due to be released to the mass market this year, and according to Intel it was able to manufacture some Cannon Lake devices last year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_Lake_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_Lake_(microarchitecture... "At CES 2018 Intel announced that they had started shipping mobile Cannon Lake CPUs at the end of 2017 and that they would ramp up production in 2018."