Intel remakes next-generation Core processors at 14nm

Intel will also make the next generation of Core processors at 14nm. The company confirmed this on its Investor Day. This will make it the fourth generation of Core processors at 14nm after Broadwell, Skylake and Kaby Lake.

This is a further optimized version of the 14nm process, according to a presentation by CEO Murthy Renduchintala. The eighth-generation Core processors should score 15 percent better on SysMark than Kaby Lake variants, Renduchintala claims. With that, the company claims the same improvement as from Skylake to Kaby Lake. The eighth generation is on the roadmap for the second half of 2017.

There were already rumors in December about a Kaby Lake Refresh and Coffee Lake that would go through life as the eighth generation Core. Intel did not announce any new processors at the event. When that will happen is unknown.

From now on, Intel will first use new processes for data center chips and not for consumer products. So said Dyane Byrant, general manager of the data center hardware division.