Intel is still facing the bottleneck in delivering state of the art processors to the market. The 10nm process continues to cause problems for Intel. So the first 10nm processor units nicknamed Cannon Lake will not arrive until 2019, and the Ice Lake will not arrive until 2020.
The world’ s largest chip manufacturer is experiencing unprecedented growth. So the American company is not only struggling with the production of 14nm but also the production of 10nm, which could solve the problem. Intel has announced the first 10nm processors by 2012 to 2015, of course, it never delivered them. This year it was clear: before 2019 there will be no 10nm processors on a large scale. There is only one Cannon Lake processor on the market with the name i3-8121U for laptops, which is hardly available. According to the latest information, the general availability of the first 10 nm products will be delayed until Christmas 2019. The fact that the desktop processors of the Cannon Lake generation are released is nowadays considered most unlikely. Some filtered presentation slides now show that Intel also postponed this generation until 2020.
The presentation slides are roadmaps for future generations. The roadmaps released in March included Ice Lake as the successor to Coffee Lake for both the Xeon-D and -E processors and the Intel Core processors. Another roadmap from May 2018 already shows the image we know today. Therefore, by 2019, the generation called Coffee Lake-Refresh will come for both desktop and workstation processors. Whiskey Lake is also highlighted. Cannon Lake, on the other hand, is completely absent, suggesting that Intel has completely removed this name from its portfolio and is moving directly to Ice Lake in 2020. Therefore, the company faces several problems at the same time. So the production of 14 nm is so busy that there are bottlenecks in deliveries. At the same time, the first 7nm processors in AMD’s Zen 2 design will arrive in 2019. Intel will probably have to deal with this, especially in the server market.