Intel CEO Bob Swan additionally remarked that the corporate has doubled its 10 nm yield expectations. “On the [10 nm] process technology front, our teams executed well in Q1 and our velocity is increasing,” he stated, including “We remain on track to have volume client systems on shelves for the holiday selling season. And over the past four months, the organization drove a nearly 2X improvement in the rate at which 10nm products move through our factories.” Intel is prioritizing enterprise over desktop, as “Ice Lake-U” shall be adopted by “Ice Lake-SP” Xeon rollout in 2020. There was no point out of desktop implementations equivalent to “Ice Lake-S.” Intel is rumored to be getting ready a stopgap microarchitecture for the desktop platform to compete with AMD “Matisse” Zen 2 AM4 processors, codenamed “Comet Lake.” This is basically a Skylake 10-core die fabbed on current 14 nm++ node. AMD in its CES keynote introduced an achievement of per-core efficiency parity with Intel, so it might be fascinating to see how Intel hopes 10 “Skylake” cores match as much as 12-16 “Zen 2” cores.
