Intel officially announced architecture roadmap, and rumor has it that Intel 7nm Ocean Cove has an 80 percent IPC performance improvement over Skylake, but still a 20 percent improvement over its predecessor, Golden Cove. Willow Cove will provide 25% more performance than Skylake and Golden Cove 50%.
Of course, Intel also has new processes and new architectures, but progress is varying in different markets, such as the low-power mobile area has 10nm Ice Lake, which is integrated with the new Sunny Cove CPU architecture, the official claim that IPC (which can be roughly understood as architectural performance) compared to Skylake started 18% improvement.
In the second half of this year, Intel will launch 10nm+ Tiger Lake, still, for the slim and light notebook computers, CPU architecture upgrade to Willow Cove, IPC is 25% higher than Skylake, converted to Sunny Cove only about 6% higher.
The next generation of desktop-level Rocket Lake will have the same architecture, except that the process will continue at 14nm.
The next-generation design architecture is Golden Cove, which will be implemented at 10 nm++ Alder Lake, with a 50% increase in IPC over Skylake and about 20% increase over Willow Cove.
According to rumors, Alder Lake will be offered in a small core 8+8 specification configuration, comparable to the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X with 16 cores and 32 threads, but at that time the Zen 4 will be available soon.
In addition, Ocean Cove is the first to be manufactured using the 7nm process, which also means that Intel 10nm is likely to be used on the desktop for only one generation before it is skipped.
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