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Tick Tock Tock Says Intel Now As Well

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/23/2016 06:46 PM | source: | 27 comment(s)
Tick Tock Tock Says Intel Now As Well

The familiar "Tick-Tock" is a model used by chip manufacturer Intel Corporation start started in 2007 to follow every micro-architectural change with a die shrink of the process technology. Based on Moore's Law this been proven to become more and more difficult, it's becoming Tick-Tock-Tock

 Earlier this year we already reported that starting with Kaby Lake things would to be changing as the cycle changes towards two tocks.

Now if this sounds like gibberish to you allow me to explain; every "tick" represents a shrinked process technology based on the previous micro-architecture (sometimes introducing new things like instructions, as with Broadwell, released in late 2014) and every "tock" designates a new micro-architecture. Roughly every year to 18 months, there was  expected to be one tick or tock. Examples: Haswell (22nm Tock, LGA-2011, high-end), Broadwell (14nm Tick, LGA-1150, mainstream) and Skylake (14nm Tock, LGA-1150, mainstream).

In it's yearly Form 10-K document about Intel's financials the company now really makes note of a three-step cycle. So after a new procedure (die shrink), there will be a new architecture followed by an upgrade of that architecture. This way Intel can release a new processor each year.

We are now at Skylake, which will be followed by Kabylake and Cannonlake. After Cannon lake we'll see Icelake and Tiger Lake.
 

MicroarchitectureCPU seriesTick or TockCycleFab nodeYear Released
Presler/Cedar Mill Pentium 4 / D Tick   65 nm 2006
Conroe/Merom Core 2 Duo/Quad Tock   65 nm 2006
Penryn Core 2 Duo/Quad Tick   45 nm 2007
Nehalem Core i Tock   45 nm 2008
Westmere Core i Tick   32 nm 2010
Sandy Bridge Core i 2xxx Tock   32 nm 2011
Ivy Bridge Core i 3xxx Tick   22 nm 2012
Haswell Core i 4xxx Tock   22 nm 2013
Broadwell Core i 5xxx Tick Process 14 nm 2014 & 2015 for desktops
Skylake Core i 6xxx Tock Architecture 14 nm 2015
Kaby lake  Core i 7xxx Tock Optimization 14 nm 2016
Cannonlake Core i 8xxx? Tick Process 10 nm 2017
Icelake Core i 8xxx? Tock Architecture 10 nm 2018
Tiger Lake Core i 9xxx? Tock Optimization 10 nm 2019
tba tba Tick Process 7 nm 2020

Intel started rolling out its 14nm "Skylake" processors last autumn, the 10nm "Cannonlake" chips were originally planned to be the follow-up. However, Intel will release Kaby lake likely in the 2nd half of 2016. Kaby lake will be based on Skylake and will offer better performance (architecture update). 

Effectively this means we will see three families of 14nm Intel chips: Broadwell from 2014, Skylake in 2015, and Kaby Lake in late 2016. The 10nm Cannonlake parts will follow in 2017. The 10nm products under code-name Cannonlake will be released 2nd half of 2017.
 


Intel by the way is stepping away from the somewhat goofy sounding Tick-Tick-Tock naming, it'll be Process <-> architecture <-> optimization. Around 2020/2021 we should see 7nm ...



Tick Tock Tock Says Intel Now As Well




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PrMinisterGR
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#5249243 Posted on: 03/23/2016 06:52 PM
It was about time. 10nm will come at around 2018, two years after than expected. 7nm will be even harder, and 5nm is considered almost impossible with current materials/physics. Speed upgrades have slowed down very much the last 5 years, and they will keep doing so even more, until we have a paradigm shift.

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#5249270 Posted on: 03/23/2016 07:28 PM
die shrinks are getting really hard, guys, leave us alone for a little bit while we figure this out, okay?

tl;dr version

Matt26LFC
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#5249271 Posted on: 03/23/2016 07:28 PM
Been on the cards really hasn't it.

Not surprising at all since they've been having nothing but trouble reducing transistor size now.

But what can we expect from canonlake now? It was mean't to be the die shrink of Skylake, which if it still is that means basically we get 3 versions of skylake what with Kabylake coming this year.

Skylake>Kabylake>Canonlake all basically the same arch!? Or will Canonlake now be a whole new arch on the new process?

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#5249274 Posted on: 03/23/2016 07:32 PM
Been on the cards really hasn't it.

Not surprising at all since they've been having nothing but trouble reducing transistor size now.

But what can we expect from canonlake now? It was mean't to be the die shrink of Skylake, which if it still is that means basically we get 3 versions of skylake what with Kabylake coming this year.

Skylake>Kabylake>Canonlake all basically the same arch!? Or will Canonlake now be a whole new arch on the new process?

Yeah same arch. The next architecture will be Icelake.

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#5249275 Posted on: 03/23/2016 07:36 PM
Still looks like my next CPU upgrade won't be til at least Canonlake or Icelake then.

10nm here we come!!! :D

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