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Intel Debuts First 10nm Cannon Lake Processor

Intel’s First Cannon Lake CPU Core i3 8121U

A few years ago, Intel started extending each new process node. Due to the complexities of silicon development, moving to a new process every two years was unsustainable. Starting with 22nm, the delays started to pile on. Eventually, Intel formalized the delays under their new product strategy. Due to numerous issues, 10nm chips have been a long time coming. This week, Intel has finally launched their first 10nm chip.

The first 10nm processor from Intel is part of the Cannon Lake family. The original plans called for a  10nm debut in 2015. As we all know, 14nm took a lot longer than expected to arrive. 10nm has been even worse in terms of delays. Even now, mass production has been viable. However, Intel is shipping a single 10nm processor. The customer is the Lenovo and the new Core i3 8121U chip is meant for the Chinese market.

Lenovo Pairs Cannon Lake With AMD GPU

The new Core i3 8121U as expected is a mobile lower power CPU. Just like before, the new process is debuting on mobile first. The new chip comes at a base frequency of 2.2 GHz with a boost to 3.2 GHz. This is in line with the latest Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake chips. Interestingly there is no iGPU listed and Lenovo paired the CPU with the AMD Radeon RX 540 2GB. Perhaps the exclusion of an iGPU helps boost yields due to the smaller die size.

There are also upgrade in other areas for the chip. LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X running at 2400 both get support. This gives a max memory bandwidth of 41.6 GH/s, a boost of about 15%. This should be a nice boost for future Intel iGPUs. Finally, the chip has 4MB of L3 cache with a 15W TDP. It is unclear when the rest of the lineup will arrive but hopefully, late 2018 or early 2019 will see the rest of the lineup.

Samuel Wan

Samuel joined eTeknix in 2015 after becoming engrossed in technology and PC hardware. With his passion for gaming and hardware, tech writing was the logical step to share the latest news with the world. When he’s not busy dreaming about the latest hardware, he enjoys gaming, music, camping and reading.

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