It beat the Kaby Lake Intel Core i3-8130U in some benchmarks, but many of the tests put the Cannon Lake mobile chip behind in power, while consuming more power. It also has a TDP of just 15W and a 4MB cache.Īnd, Anandtech seems to have got its hands on a laptop running that Core i3-8121U for testing – and, well, it’s not the next-generation revolution you were expecting. According to the product listing the processor features two-cores and four-threads delivering 2.2GHz of base performance and boost clock of 3.2GHz. This dual-core chip was likely that Intel Core i3 8121U processor that was just listed by Intel. We’ll likely see higher core counts, as Intel is going to want to go up against AMD in a major way. Otherwise, AMD would eat them alive for that. Tom’s Hardware has reported that a dual-core Cannon Lake CPU was shipped last year according to a Spectre microcode guidance document, but it’s highly unlikely that consumer units will be the same. This will mean that battery life in the best laptops will surge, and we’ll be able to overclock even harder while keeping temps manageable. It’s been a very long time since we’ve seen a die process shrink at Intel, but when Broadwell succeeded Haswell (yeah, it’s been that long), we saw 30% gains in efficiency. This is where things are going to get interesting. But, given Intel’s recent supply issues, we could see the release pushed back to the latter half of 2019 or even 2020. So, is Sunny Cove just Cannon Lake rebranded? Is Cannon Lake cancelled? Who knows.Įither way we’ll have to wait until at least 2019 to see Cannon Lake, or whatever it’s called now, but when in 2019? Well, we don’t know yet, but we did get our hands on a leaked Intel roadmap that shows Coffee Lake Refresh being Intel’s main platform through Q2 2019. Intel just announced its Sunny Cove 10nm microarchitecture, for both server and client processors, for release in late 2019. So, we just have to see when this smaller manufacturing process makes it to market.īut, then we keep getting more and more evidence that Cannon Lake might never see the light of day. However, Intel came out and defended itself, saying that it was ‘making good progress on 10nm’ and that ‘yields are improving’. There was some recent speculation that pointed to Intel just cancelling Cannon Lake, because it wasn’t financially feasible to shift to 10nm.
But according to Intel’s Q1 2018 financial report, it’s “currently shipping low-volume 10nm product and now expects 10nm volume production to shift to 2019.” So, we’re probably not getting Cannon Lake in 2018. The presumably 9th-generation Intel CPUs were initially supposed to follow Skylake in 2016, then Kaby Lake in 2018. We were supposed to get Cannon Lake twice already.
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