Intel extended its public microprocessor road map through 2020 recently, confirming the existence of Tiger Lake, a 10nm Core chip due in 2020 that features an entirely new microarchitecture and Intel’s forthcoming Xe graphics. Executives also began disclosing some of the performance improvements associated with its previously-announced chips, such as how fast Intel’s first 10nm chip, Ice Lake, will be compared with the previous generation. Intel also began talking a bit about the improvements in Lakefield, which stacks logic together to create a denser system-on-a-chip.
Combine the new 10nm Ice Lake core – which executives said would ship in June – plus the redesigned Tiger Lake chip, as well as Intel’s other major announcement, 7nm chips by 2021, and Intel is at least talking more aggressively than it has in…
