Intel’s 11th-gen Rocket Lake chip was green-lit properly earlier than AMD’s Zen 2 and Zen three architectures rocked our worlds, firm officers acknowledged.
In an AMA posted Tuesday on the Intel subreddit, Scott Rouse, Intel’s platform engineer for Rocket Lake, attending with different Intel officers, revealed that Rocket Lake was given the go-ahead in early 2019. Its two-year journey to the launchpad on March 30th is definitely break-neck velocity for a brand new CPU (which could take years longer usually). Still, the world that Rocket Lake woke as much as in 2021 most likely wasn’t what Intel anticipated in 2019, when the corporate created the chip by marrying its yet-to-be-released 10th-gen, 10nm Ice Lake x86 cores with its already-aging 14nm manufacturing course of.
“We are working on solutions, which include more modular designs, but for now we have the monolithic, large die that has to fit a variety of usages,” he mentioned.
