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Intel 10 nm CPUs to See Very Limited Initial Launch in 2017
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has come out to say that the company's first 10 nm CPUs based on the "Cannon Lake" micro-architecture will see the light of day before this year's end. Intel has been having a slew of ramp-up delays with its 10 nm products, which prompted a slippage from an expected 2016, full-scale launch (whose ship has sailed, clearly) towards a timed, product-tier based strategy. Intel opted to first introduce 10 nm technology to FPGA accelerators, which due to their redundancy, would suffer less from yield issues.Intel are "on track to ship our first low-volume 10-nanometer part by the end
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Has processor performance finally maxed out?
Gains in processor performance have diminished over the years. In the old days, going from a 25 MHz 486 to a 50 MHz 486 actually doubled performance. But for the last few generations of processors, performance gains have been under 10 percent, at best, for each successive generation.
Now it’s starting to look like performance isn’t just slowing but coming to a stop. The Chinese hobbyist site Expreview recently published a series of tests comparing Kaby Lake, Intel’s newest processor, to Skylake, its prior-generation chip.
At their stock clock speeds, the Kaby Lake processor is up to 7.4 percent faster on average in single-threaded tests and up to 8.88 percent faster on average in multi-threaded performance compared to Skylake. But when the testers clocked both chips at 4.0 GHz and tested through the same 11 CPU benchmarks, the Kaby Lake Core i7-7700K was 0.86 percent slower in single-threaded tests, and 0.02 percent slower in multi-threaded tests. These are numbers that basically require a benchmark to find the difference.
A review from Ars Technica confirmed it. Any performance gains in Kaby Lake are negligible and merely resulted from the clock speed ticking up.
However, Anand Srivatsa, general manager of In