Are you being sarcastic?Strategically sound, but kind of a bummer.
I have a hard time believing this rumor.
https://videocardz.com/76910/intel-roadmaps-leaked-core-i9-9900k-coming-next-year
Intel may have delayed the Coffee Lake Refresh launch until next year. Also suggests there might be a locked i9 desktop part coming. It would make sense if they are really that capacity constrained and/or they know any 10th gen desktop parts aren't coming until 2020 so they want to get things aligned to a year.
So use a 14nm part to compete against a likely 12 core 7nm part? I don't think so, Intel need to release this now and just accept that 2019 will be a rough year for them and hit back in 2020.
https://hk.xfastest.com/11058/intel-new-raodmap-2018-2019-i9-9900k-i7-9700k/#pid=4
Another confirmation all 300series boards are supported with 9th generation. As for the launch I've heard Q4 is accurate for the first few SKUs not Q3.
edit:
https://www.hkepc.com/17081/
October launch for three SKUs: 9900k, 9700k, 9600k.
This one is real because Intel just sent me a DMCA takedown notice for tweeting this out, ROFL.And we have a forth Roadmap. I know that it's wccftech, but this one looks the most accurate:
No Icelake till at least October 2019
Nothing like official confirmation, haha.
How many of you are there?
They even said "showing our roadmap". Oh Intel...
Ashraf isn't claiming, Intel straight up told him that.https://twitter.com/Ashraf__Eassa/status/1029440772213563393
Ashraf clams that Intel is making further changes/improvements to 14 nm for Cascade Lake (14+++?) and then again with Cooper Lake (14++++?). Wonder if Comet Lake will use 14+++, 5 Ghz single core would be pretty good at 28 W.
This one is real because Intel just sent me a DMCA takedown notice for tweeting this out, ROFL.
Idk why they bother but it's one way to confirm which is real or not lol. Which is great for us, Ty Intel.Why do Intel even bother after its in the wild? There are probably literally thousands of copies of this now. It's like trying to piss on a wildfire to put it out.
Anyway, that road map is what I expected. Wouldn't surprise me if 10nm gets pushed back again into early 2020. They really are having a difficult time with it.
ThisI don't really care what process is used as long as the chip is an improvement.
As long as they can get more out of it then great, but we used to have redesigns and tweaks that increased IPC every year. The improvements now are apparently only in power usage and number of cores, because we still have Skylake cores.