Stefan Mileschin

We’ve been on Intel's case for years to tell us when its 10nm parts are coming to the mass market. Technically Intel already shipped its first 10nm processor, Cannon Lake, but this was low volume and limited to specific geographic markets. This time Intel is promising that its first volume consumer processor on 10nm will be Ice Lake.

It should be noted that Intel hasn’t put a date on Ice Lake launching, but has promised 10nm on shelves by the end of 2019. It has several products that could qualify for that, but Ice Lake is the likely suspect.
Ice Lake-U

At Intel’s Architecture Day in December, we saw chips designated as ‘Ice Lake-U’, built for 15W TDPs with four cores using the new Sunny Cove microarchitecture and Gen11 graphics. Intel went into some details about this part, which we can share with you today.

The 15W processor is a quad core part supporting two threads per core, and will have 64 EUs of Gen11 graphics. 64 EUs will be the standard ‘GT2’ mainstream configuration for this generation, up from 24 EUs today. In order to drive that many execution units, Intel stated that they need 50-60 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which will come from LPDDR4X memory. In order for those numbers to line up, they will need LPDDR4X-3200 at a minimum, which gives 51.2 GB/s.

These processors will end up in the same kinds of designs that we see with quad-core 15W Whiskey Lake-U parts today, typically as part of product refreshes. But we could also see some new user experiences based on the chip given its increased performance.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13775...-with-ice-lake