There had been many rumors about Intel’s 10 nm CPUs, most of the indicating that Intel won’t manufacture 10 nm CPUs for desktop customers, as a result of 10 nm manufacturing course of being in a nasty form. Those rumors had been later disregarded by Intel claiming that 10 nm is doing very properly on bettering yields and that we’ll see desktop CPUs based mostly on the brand new node very quickly.
Thanks to the Linux kernel mailing listing (LKML), we now know that help for Ice Lake desktop and server CPUs has been added. Patch titled “Add more CPU model number for Ice Lake” has many particulars about variants of Ice Lake with names like Ice Lake X for server Xeon CPU, Ice Lake D for Xeon D CPUs, Ice Lake L for cellular, and common Ice Lake for desktop sequence of CPUs. This confirms Intel’s claims that Ice Lake is on its strategy to the palms of desktop and server customers within the close to future. Possible launch date on these CPUs could be someday in 2020, when Xe graphics playing cards are launched in July/August, so Intel might bundle each processors on the identical 10 nm node.
