no it isn't. its the equivalent of nahalem to westmere.

Thats not what I've read few times on various sites, but ok.

Astyanax:

no it isn't. its the equivalent of nahalem to westmere.

No. It is not. Westmere was just a shrink with a few added features. While ice lake isn't going to be a 100% new architecture from the ground up, it will have architectural changes. Last time Intel designed a chip from a blank slate was 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_CPU_microarchitectures

It really is. lol

Andrew LB:

No. It is not. Westmere was just a shrink with a few added features. While ice lake isn't going to be a 100% new architecture from the ground up, it will have architectural changes. Last time Intel designed a chip from a blank slate was 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_CPU_microarchitectures

I'm not seeing where you are getting that ice lake will be more more then just a node shrink with a few changes/added features...which is what you just called westmere. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/ice_lake_(client)#Architecture Looks like pretty much a node change and some minor changes, and potentially decent iGPU change. Whatever "Ocean Cove" or maybe "Sapphire Rapids" is, may be a relatively major architecture change, but i do not expect a major architecture change from intel that'll do anything meaningful to their IPC until past 2021.