Recently, Intel announced that its 10nm process will be postponed again, which is expected to be postponed to the second half of 2017. Therefore, this also confirms that Intel's seventh generation Core processor will completely miss the 10nm process, and will continue to use the 14nm process used by the fifth generation Broadwell and the sixth generation Skylake. Recently, Intel announced that the seventh generation of Core Kaby Lake processor will be launched at the end of this year as scheduled. The launch time of the seventh generation Core processor will be the same as that of AMD's Zen series processors with Samsung's 14nm technology. The two will face fierce competition.
AMD will be ready to release a new processor based on Zen architecture at the end of this year. It will use the 14nm FinFET technology of Samsung, and leap from the 32nm bulldozer architecture to the same level as Intel. In the current CPU market share, Intel has left AMD far behind. After Intel has completed multi generation leaps from 32nm, 28nm, 22nm, 20nm to 14nm, AMD is still using 32nm bulldozer architecture. This process has been used for more than five years, and is also called "agricultural enterprise" by netizens.
As for Intel's 10nm process, this is not the first time that Intel has experienced a process delay. At 14nm, the delay was nearly one year. The Broadwell desktop version of Core's fifth generation product only launched i7-5775c and i5-5675c, and the mobile version only included a few models, including Macbook pro 2015 and Dell XPS13 2015. Then the sixth generation of Core Skylake was launched, This is also a common 14nm process processor on the market.
According to the parameters released by Intel, the seventh generation of Core Kaby Lake processing is only an upgrade of the sixth generation. Not only the process continues to use 14nm, but also the connection port continues to use LGA1151. The memory frequency has been slightly increased from DDR4 2133MHz to 2400MHz. Only the GPU has been significantly improved. The integrated display will be upgraded to 256MB eDRAM cache, while the current model will be 128MB.
