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10nm has to compete with 3 generations worth of improvement on 14nm. Intel dug their own grave there, they gambled on 10nm, they lost, then they gambled on 10nm
by zaarn 7y ago
10nm has to compete with 3 generations worth of improvement on 14nm. Intel dug their own grave there, they gambled on 10nm, they lost, then they gambled on 10nm being good enough to beat improved 14nm processes, and lost again.
- virtualwhys 7y agoIf they don't jump straight to 7nm then next iteration of 10nm may be more impressive. At 6-8 cores a 10nm with low base clock and decent boost speeds would probably be a decent option provided it doesn't throttle in the thin/light laptops of today. Consumer is caught between worlds, the old power hungry one, and the new efficient one where long battery life and cool/quiet mobile systems are the norm (at least that's the hope).
- zaarn 7y agoFrom what we've seen in first preliminary benchmarks, the 10nm isn't impressive in either Performance or Power Consumption and AMD trumps it in both. The consumer is only trapped if they choose Intel.