Counterattack! Intel's 8th generation Coffee Lake processor launched in the second half of the year

[Abstract] AMD launched the high-performance chip Ryzen, Intel must fight back, in the second half it may launch Coffe Lake chip, performance increased by 15%.

Tencent Digital (Databoy) Intel is preparing to introduce the Coffe Lake chip in the second half of 2017. It is the first chip to be manufactured using the 8th generation Core technology. The new processor has selected the 14nm process, and the Core chip released by Intel in 2014 is basically the same.

According to the plan, the performance of the 8-generation Core i7 processor is 15% higher than that of the 7-generation Core i7 processor. In the future, Intel is indeed ready to migrate to 10nm. The first chip to be manufactured on a 10-nanometer process may be Cannonlake. Looking at the product plans leaked last year, Cannonlake may be available by the end of 2017. However, the product planning roadmap also states that Coffee Lake will be launched in 2018 and now becomes the second half of 2017. It follows that the previous roadmap may be wrong, or Intel may have adjusted its time.

AMD introduced high-performance chip Ryzen, Intel is under great pressure, ARM chips also brought trouble to Intel.

Earlier this week, Intel CEO Brian Kraznich announced that it will continue to build a chip manufacturing plant in Arizona (Arizona) after the project was suspended. With the new plant, Intel can move smoothly to 7nm.

For many years, improving CPU performance was not what Intel was most concerned about, and things have changed. This week, Intel held an annual meeting of investors. The company's executives said at the meeting that the transition from Skylake to Kaby Lake will increase performance by 15%, and Cannonlake will at least increase by 15%. The performance of the AMD Ryzen chip is 40% higher than that of the previous generation. This data is based on the IPC (Per Cycle Instruction), which is an important indicator for evaluating performance.

Intel demonstrated Cannonlake chips at CES. Venkata Renduchintala, president of Intel’s IoT business and system architecture group, told the audience that Cannonlake is the first Intel chip to be manufactured on a 10-nanometer process, and its energy consumption will drop significantly. Ludundhartata also said that the game market is rapidly expanding, especially in the e-sports market, where the demand for high-performance Core i7 chips grew rapidly last year.

When the market moves toward VR, buyers have a strong desire to upgrade. They want to replace Core i3 chips with Core i7 chips. Ludundantara said Core i7 is 36% faster than Core i3.

In the past, manufacturers have been increasing the clock frequency in order to improve the performance of the chip. When the frequency is increased, energy consumption will also increase. Manufacturers will then change their direction and increase the chip's core. This will not only improve performance, but also extend the notebook's battery life. Next, the manufacturer integrates the display chip and I/O bus into the chip. Now that the game and VR industry have risen, manufacturers have once again adjusted their focus and began to focus on raw CPU performance.

The growth of the PC market is weak, and games and VR have become bright spots. In the past, Intel would not even lose money in order to occupy the market and sell low-profit chips. Now Intel's attitude has changed, it focuses on sales of high-margin products, such as the Core i7 processor. The Core i7-6950X has the highest price, which is about $1,723. It makes a lot of money for Intel.

Intel must compete with AMD because Ryzen is very powerful. Analysts believe that from an early move, Ryzen will be successful on high-end gaming PCs, and if you want to go further, you will have to rely on word of mouth. Whether Ryzen can enter consumer notebooks and desktops in the future depends on whether PC makers accept them.

Source: pcworld, liliputing

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