Although Intel have originally planned to have 10nm Cannonlake CPUs ready for early next year it appears that plans have been changed as 10nm Cannonlake has been delayed and replaced with 14nm Kaby Lake CPUs.

Originally, Intel planned to have 10nm CPUs ready in 2016 but the same was shortly after delayed to 2017 and now is on hold indefinitely. This suggest that Intel certainly has problems with the 10nm manufacturing process and things are not going the way it was originally planned.

Instead of the 10nm Cannonlake CPUs, Intel will launch 14nm Kaby Lake CPUs which will be available in dual- and quad-core versions and should support the same LGA1151 socket with TDP ranging from 4.5W to 91W.

While we had some information regarding what to expect from Cannonlake CPUs, we have no information regarding Kaby Lake other than the expected lineup of dual- and quad-core versions. The leaked slide suggest that it will have four standard lines, including desktop and mobile versions.

Intel already had problems with moving to 14nm, but anything beyond appears to be much more difficult than originally planned and it possibly needs a different design, something that Intel is apparently currently working on, at least judging from the change of plans and the delay.



Source: Techspot.com.