Roadmap Shows Intel To Release 10nm Processors In Q3 2017

A roadmap that appears to be from Intel shows the release schedule for the mobile processors. It can be seen that Intel plans to release the 10nm-produced Cannonlake processors in the third quarter of 2017, three years after the introduction of the first 14nm chips.

The roadmap that Benchlife publishes states when Intel roughly wants to release its processors for laptops, tablets and smartphones. Benchlife often publishes authentic Intel internal information. The first Core Y and U processors for Kaby Lake-generation laptops will appear in the middle of the third quarter of this year. Kaby Lake is the third chip generation produced on 14nm.

Last year, Intel already announced that it would let go of its tick-tock release schedule. This cadence meant Intel switched to a new chip architecture one year and downsized the manufacturing process the next. So every two years Intel switched to a smaller nm generation, but with Kaby Lake that will come to an end.

In the third quarter of 2017, according to the now published roadmap for Core U and Y, Intel will switch to 10nm, with the Cannonlake generation. That’s three years after Intel announced its first 14nm chip with Broadwell. That happened in September 2014, although it took until 2015 for those chips to be widely released.

In the third quarter of this year, Apollo Lake should appear, Braswell’s successor for tablets and economical laptops and convertibles. That is a quarter later than stated on an earlier roadmap. Intel is also planning a successor to Cherry Trail, a chip generation codenamed Broxton. This should serve tablets and high-end smartphones and appear in the fourth quarter of 2016. Broxton was suspected that it would compete with, for example, the top models in the Qualcomm Snapdragon and Samsung Exynos lines, but the Intel chip was postponed from 2015 to 2016, and now only seems to be available at the end of the year. to appear.

For cheaper smartphones, Intel will introduce SoFIA socs with lte support in the middle of this year. That chip line should be followed in mid-2017 by a new generation, which Intel calls SoFIA LTE2.