Intel ends Tick-Tock cycle and delays 10nm production to 2017
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Denial
Bummer. Intel needs to get EUV up and going. Pretty crazy that a company with that much money and arguably the best engineers can't figure this out.
Matt26LFC
Well like this wasn't obvious. Which is basically why I'm going to get on skylake now, nothing is coming for at least the next 2 years thats going to be interesting. It won't be until 10nm Canonlake arrives, and even then Canonlake is mostly just a die shrink of Skylake. Could be 2018 and 10nm with a whole new Architecture before we see something amazing for CPUs in the Desktop space.
At least Z170 chipset will have all the latest features etc Only thing I could think that might be missing from Z170 Platform is PCIe 4.0, perhaps that'll be a feature that Intel use to sell Kaby Lake when it arrives next year, PCIe 4.0 for the mainstream, but limit it to 16 lanes so's not to undercut Skylake-E sales.
Denial
waltc3
Yes, "tick-tock" is like "Moore's Law," one of those generally understood truths that's false...;)
tsunami231
sound like skylake will be what i going after then
Megabiv
Pete J
abula
Intel liked so much what they gain with Devils Cannon that they want to repeat this trend with Kabylake, and milk us even more between real ticks and tocks.
Denial
Deasnutz
It was an absolute bitch for them to get on 14nm, let alone 10nm. 14nm is fine for a 3rd generation, as it will still have room for improvement.
They obviously need time for engineering, I'm sure they are considering many directions.
Loobyluggs
umeng2002
IBM just made the first 7nm chip, so I doubt Intel needs more time for R&D.
I think it's just a delay since they're so far ahead of AMD. Why push things out the door when you can stretch technology out and make more money until AMD get a little closer, at least.
-Tj-
Denial
-Tj-
Well I was only referring to desktop die shrinks, it looks like they're milking it to the max.. I agree on mobile part.
Chillin
Pete J
icedman
Die shrinks arent even exciting anymore at this point it seems all they do is increase the cost and add 5% performance increase.
Clouseau
Has software really been keeping up with the times lately? Why go down the same road AMD does and release an architecture that is so far ahead of software development that would render it irrelevant in the current market? Hardware needs to stay ahead of software development to keep pushing the development; cannot get to far ahead of the curve at the same time. Like has been said, AMDs market share has very little impact on Intel's decisions. Intel does what is in the best interest of Intel. They are aligned very well to the current state of the market.
k3vst3r