Unfortunately, desktop processors look like they are left out of the blue. Surprisingly today we know that at all odds they will be the last to receive the 10nm of the company in high performance and that for some reason we do not know it will be the first platforms to know the company's 7nm already in EUV.
In the meantime, the already abandoned 14nm will continue with us this year and next. Total value in a company that also represents high-quality users and where nothing will go well against AMD operations.
Comet Lake-S and Rocket Lake-S will share the stage and say hello at 14 nm
As we already know, the two forums will also get the 14nm ++ lithographic process, done extremely well by Intel and made the most of all the improvements it will introduce in its new build.
Perhaps the most disappointing thing is that the Skylake cores continue to be used in their debut so far and since 2015. Five years will see its end with the launch of Rocket Lake featuring Willow Cove cores, but already in 2021.
So, Intel changes its road map and surprises, leaving AMD free with Zen 3 for many months without opposition and will have to wait until 2021 to offer its LGA 1200-based platform that already has PCIe 4.0.
After two years than AMD, with the lithographic process too far behind and with the words it won't give a version 10 as we will see next month with Comet Lake. Intel's surprises limit its supply to not only 8 cores via Willow Cove, but with the IGPU Gen 12 Xe under their belt and a new memory controller.
Alder Lake and Meteor Lake will be the real development of this company
Given this, it is clear that Intel will not only compete with the new AMD, but know that it is too late to fight again. It will be the year 2022 when it looks as if what they called a "comeback" in the main processor will start.
In the end, 10 nm will overlap in the 12 processor series, but will also do so with the Golden Cove core microarchitecture, which has a large LGA 1700 socket (45 x 37,5 mm) and above all with a new processor size -8 + 8.
This processor will obviously use BIG.little for its calls, of which the first 8 will be the most active and 8 seconds will be for small calls, which means it will be the first desktop-wide MCM desktop architecture.
As if it were nothing new, the 10nm process will end next year, unveiling a fiasco meant for the company and developing a new and improved EUV 7nm under architectural design at Meteor Lake in the 13th processor series where it will share the LGA 1700 socket and Alder Lake.
DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 will enter the scene
It will arrive in 2023 and there is currently no further details, but we may be talking about the DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 input. With this unofficial road update (for now) it becomes clear that Intel is living a few years of transforming AMD, moving behind and sticking its head to breathe when it can. We will have to wait at least 1 year or maybe two to see if we can successfully beat AMD again as much as we have done so far.
Of course, the road for normal processors should not be confused with the lithographic processors, because due to Intel's large portfolio, the latter will take on a variety of products over the years, but it won't be what we will see on gaming processors.
