On Monday, August 21, Intel plans to unveil its 8th-generation Core processors. But it may have also unveiled one member of its 9th-generation Core family: Ice Lake.A terse note on the company´s website describes the new technology: `The Ice Lake processor family is a successor to the 8th-generation Intel Core processor family. These processors utilize Intel´s industry-leading 10nm+ process technology.`For years, Intel moved on what it called a `tick-tock` cadence, launching a chip on a new process technology, then redesigning it for faster performance around a new architecture. Intel´s Broadwell chips introduced the 14nm generation in 2014 and 2015, followed by the Skylake generation in 2015 and 2016. But then Intel unexpectedly added a third 14nm chip, Kaby Lake, and made plans to launch a fourth 14nm chip, believed to be called `Coffee Lake,` on August 21.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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