Is Intel Going 10nm Next Year?

February 3, 2016 by admin
Filed under Computing

Intel is reportedly going to release its first 10nm processor family in 2017, expected to be the first of three generations of processors that will be fabbed on the 10nm process.

Guru 3D found a slide which suggest that Chipzilla will not be sticking to its traditional “tick-tock model.” To be fair Intel has been using the 14nm node for two generations so far – Broadwell and Skylake. Kaby Lake processor architecture that is due later this year, will also use 14nm .

The slide tells us pretty much what we expected. The first processor family to be manufactured on a 10nm node will be Cannonlake, expected to launch in the year 2017. The following year, Intel will reportedly launch Icelake processors, again using the same 10nm node. Icelake will be succeeded by Tigerlake in 2019, the third generation of Intel processors using a 10nm silicon fab process. The codename for Tigerlake’s successor is unknown. When it comes out in 2020 it will use 5nm.

architecture	CPU series	Tick or Tock	Fab node	Year Released
Presler/Cedar Mill	Pentium 4 / D	Tick	65 nm	2006
Conroe/Merom	Core 2 Duo/Quad	Tock	65 nm	2006
Penryn	Core 2 Duo/Quad	Tick	45 nm	2007
Nehalem	Core i	Tock	45 nm	2008
Westmere	Core i	Tick	32 nm	2010
Sandy Bridge	Core i 2xxx	Tock	32 nm	2011
Ivy Bridge	Core i 3xxx	Tick	22 nm	2012
Haswell	Core i 4xxx	Tock	22 nm	2013
Broadwell	Core i 5xxx	Tick	14 nm	2014 & 2015 for desktops
Skylake	Core i 6xxx	Tock	14 nm	2015
Kaby lake	Core i 7xxx	Tock	14 nm	2016
Cannonlake	Core i 8xxx?	Tick	10 nm	2017
Ice Lake	Core i 8xxx?	Tock	10 nm	2018
Tigerlake	Core i 9xxx?	Tock	10 nm	2019
N/A	N/A	Tick	5 nm	2020