Intel held an investor day briefing yesterday in which it made some claims on the next generation desktop processors. The CPUs next in line will be based on Cannon Lake, interesting to see it that it once again will be a 14nm series which makes it the 4th gen on that fabrication node.
Cannon lake will be an optimized version of 14nm and thus the fourth tock in their 14nm production cycle. It will be the 8th generation Core series processors. Intel did make one claim in the presentation and that it that Cannon Lake would be 15% faster opposed to Kaby Lake. Now we had to say that Intel slides and figures always are a little on the optimistic side, but hey who knows right?
This also means that Coffee lake (6-core mainstream processors) will be pushed back at least to 2018 as quad-core Cannon Lake processors are planned for the second half of 2017.