Intel has confirmed that its 10nm manufacturing process and Cannonlake chips are on track for release in Q2 2017 and not delayed to 2018 as earlier rumored.

In a comment to Motely Fool, which was the source of the original rumor regarding the delay, suggested by a job listing on Intel's site, Intel confirmed that the job listing was an error which has been removed and that its 10nm manufacturing process is on track with first Cannonlake 10nm chips scheduled to launch in the second half of 2017.

Intel certainly had issues with its 10nm manufacturing process which probably resulted in poor yields but it appears that these will not influence its release schedule.

It is common knowledge that by pushing to smaller manufacturing process leads to much more problems and it is pretty much why Intel delayed its 14nm Broadwell architecture.

For quite some time, Intel has been keeping up with its Tick-Tock model, with two generations of processors based on the same manufacturing process, but now it appears that 10nm manufacturing process will bring changes and introduce the new Tick-Tock-Tock model, as the same manufacturing process will be used for three different generations of processors.

Next stage in Intel's chip development will be the 7nm manufacturing process which will probably bring plenty of new problems and it is still way to early to even talk about 5nm manufacturing process. Currently, Intel expects to start developing the 7nm manufacturing process in 2017 and 5nm is scheduled for 2020.

It is obvious that Intel will still stick to Moore's Law and describes it as a good foundation but also expect4s that we will see a variety of different future technologies implemented in the chip architecture.

Intel's last 14nm Kaby Lake CPUs are expected in the second half of this year. The first 10nm Cannonlake chips are expected to be succeeded by Ice Lake chips in 2018.



Source: via Wccftech.com.