IntelUser2000
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Cannonlake is not a shrink of Kabylake. This is confirmed because Intel already confirmed that Cannonlake comes with Gen10 graphics. That rules out a shrink of Kabylake.
Technically there's no such thing as a "pure shrink" anymore. It take so much more work. Traditionally though, Cannonlake should see few % improvements in the CPU core. Probably 2%.
Yes, they released at least one picture where 10nm is clearly below 14nm++ in terms of transistor performance, so it's clear that we won't see any desktop SKUs based on the 1st 10nm gen..
Not only that, they said the second iteration of 10nm, the 10nm+ is slightly slower than 14nm++. It'll take 10nm++ to beat it. So overall the 10nm brings even less of a benefit to CPUs than 14nm did. Isn't it great?
Clearly performance is the reason why they don't have it for performance parts. I'd even think based on what they are saying, it'll be the primary driver not having it on high performance parts, not yields.
Yeah the IGP is Gen10. I don't know if there is anything really notable in it however.
Early leaks indicated 40EUs coming to GT2. That'd be nice.