During its Q4 earning reports, Intel has confirmed that its Skylake architecture is still on track and should launch in the second half of the year, or pretty much just in time for the back-to-school time-frame. Unfortunately, Intel still did not reveal clear time-frame for its 10nm manufacturing process.


Intel had a lot of problems with 14nm manufacturing process which was the main reason behind the Broadwell delay. While Intel managed to launch some 14nm chips in 2014, including the Core M parts, and introduce Broadwell-U chips in early 2015, we are still waiting high-end Broadwell parts which might be even canceled due to the fact that Skylake is apparently on track and should come in the second half of this year for both mobile and desktop markets.




On the other hand, certain rumors suggest that Intel might still launch both the Broadwell and Skylake parts at roughly the same time period in order to appeal to extend support for 9-series chipset owners or pushed those Broadwell parts in mobile market.

That same conference call shared a little information regarding Intel's 10nm manufacturing process and Cannonlake, Intel's first 10nm architecture. While Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich, did not mention Cannonlake by name, it did note that the company still does not have a fixed time-frame for 10nm manufacturing process.

Either Intel does not want to make the same mistake as with the 14nm manufacturing process which had plenty of problems, or the 10nm manufacturing process is facing those same problems, it is very unlikely that we will see it in 2016 and it is widely expected that Intel will pretty much do a Skylake refresh in 2016.

In any case, 10nm is still far off and we still need to focus on 2015 and upcoming 14nm parts.



Source: Wccftech.com.