Honestly I doubt it is worth to shed tears about Cannon Lake architecture at all. It was a "Lake" derivative, conceived in the days of Intel reigning supreme and probably included 2-3% of IPC improvement outside of AVX512 apps ( and even there i highly doubt "client" variant of CNL had full 512 width units). So from performance department we are not missing anything*
* Caveats are iGPU, that could be advanced and widened at same using die real estate on 10nm and of course unknown clocking abilities of 10nm process, but of course anything south of 5Ghz can't touch current CFL chips.
So once 10nm has failed as hard as it has with yields and probably transistor performance ( even Intel in benchmarketing slides is comparing 10nm+ vs 14nm+++ etc ), we might as well wait for fixed 10nm chips with architecture that was/is being developed in more competitive environment.
Is that Ice Lake? Only time will tell.
* Caveats are iGPU, that could be advanced and widened at same using die real estate on 10nm and of course unknown clocking abilities of 10nm process, but of course anything south of 5Ghz can't touch current CFL chips.
So once 10nm has failed as hard as it has with yields and probably transistor performance ( even Intel in benchmarketing slides is comparing 10nm+ vs 14nm+++ etc ), we might as well wait for fixed 10nm chips with architecture that was/is being developed in more competitive environment.
Is that Ice Lake? Only time will tell.