Intel Comet Lake release date, CPU specs, and performance

While the techie world waits with bated breath for Intel to unveil its long-awaited 10nm process node in genuine, 100% shipping, shenanigan-free product, the company has one more cookie-cutter generation in the bank: Intel Comet Lake. Set to arrive later this year, these iterative processors are expected with 10 cores squeezed into a footprint originally intended for just four. Soon to reshaped yet again into Intel’s 10th Gen, the Skylake microarchitecture has taken many forms since it was first introduced. The biggest changes to the formula occurred following the launch of AMD Ryzen, which has been putting pressure on Intel to deliver greater core counts across its client i3, i5, and i7 lineup. And its biggest challenge is still yet to come in the form of Zen 2 and the 7nm process node. Expected to launch mid-year, AMD will gain process node dominance with its AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs. Intel’s response to this growing pressure is two-fold. Firstly, Comet Lake will launch mid-year, proving that Skylake still has some life in it yet, or, somehow, space for two more cores. Secondly, it will follow that up with Intel Ice Lake processors over the holiday season, which we suspect will not be available en masse and in desktop form until sometime in 2020.

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