Totally trustworthy rumours suggest a 10-core Intel Comet Lake will rival AMD’s Zen 2 in 2019

Intel’s going to release another range of 14nm++++++++ CPUs next year and it's going to have a 10-core processor with the codename of Intel Comet Lake... according to what will surely be viewed as the most trustworthy source of rumours. The news has come from a member on a Taiwanese tech forum who is suggesting Intel will be shipping a deca-core mainstream CPU next year. The Intel Comet Lake flagship model will then be a 10-core, 20-thread processor, based on the same 14nm production process we’ve been sitting on since Coffee Lake. And essentially since Broadwell, if you want to go back that far. But yes, it's all according to this forumite who claims it was heard at a meeting. By his uncle. You won't know him. But he's really high up at Intel. Honest. There is also some suggestion Intel might utilise a dual ring bus design for this Comet Lake chip, instead of the single ring bus used for the i9 9900K, or the mesh design picked up by the similarly ten-core i7 7900X and upcoming i9 9900X. That's an intriguing thought and could possible suggest a move to something more akin to AMD’s CCX design.

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