Coffee Lake: Intel Going for 6 Cores Processors on Laptops
Some documentation has leaked onto the web is reconfirming that intel is preparing 6-core processors intended for the laptop segment. The 14nm processors are developed under codename Coffee Lake.
Basically following Kaby Lake to release there will be a fourth generation processor series fabbed on the 14nm production process called Coffee Lake (a refresh of Skylake). It does make sense as Intel over a year ago announced to abandon its tick-tock model, which alternately introduced a new architecture and a new production process. Basically Intel will use whatever fab process works out the best for them practially and economically aimed at a certain target area. So there will be a fourth generation 14nm product series, in the form of Coffee Lake.
It'll be a while before you'll actually see laptops fitted with them as the leaked slide indicates that to be in Q2 2018 release date wise. These processors have a 45 Watt TDP. Next to more cores these processors might get an improved GT3e graphics processor, at least we know that to be for sure on the 4 and 2 core models.
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Microarchitecture | CPU series | Tick or Tock | Cycle | Fab node | Year 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 | 2016 |
Kaby lake | Core i 7xxx | Tock | Optimization | 14 nm | 2017 |
Coffee Lake | Core i 7xxx | Tock | Optimization | 14 nm | 2018 |
Cannonlake | Core i 8xxx? | Tick | Process | 10 nm | 2018 |
Icelake | Core i 8xxx? | Tock | Architecture | 10 nm | 2019 |
Tiger Lake | Core i 9xxx? | Tock | Optimization | 10 nm | 2020 |
tba | tba | Tick | Process | 7 nm | 2020 |
Have a peek at the new roadmap that leaked, clock on the thumbneail below.
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"Coffee Lake"?!

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Increasing mainstream core count has been extremely difficult for Intel. Otherwise we wouldn't have had a decade of quad-cores. Although not even all i7 laptop CPUs have been quad-cores, so I guess a mainstream laptop CPU for Intel has been a dual-core.
Easily done? Not if you study the history.
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sound marvelous for me

((btw i was loving your captain kitty avatar

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Increasing mainstream core count has been extremely difficult for Intel. Otherwise we wouldn't have had a decade of quad-cores. Although not even all i7 laptop CPUs have been quad-cores, so I guess a mainstream laptop CPU for Intel has been a dual-core.
Easily done? Not if you study the history.
Huh, what are you on about?
Multicore processors with higher core counts than 4 have all been Xeons. Hence the same pin layout.
X79 and X99 relies on the Xeon refresh.
It has nothing to do with history.
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Easily done if the clocks are kept very low.