Cannon Lake (microprocessor) explained

Cannon Lake
Soldby:Intel
Manuf1:Intel
Size-From:Intel 10 nm (tri-gate) transistors
Clock:3.2GHz
Numcores:2
Gpu:Factory disabled
Sock1:BGA 1440
Pcode1:CNL
Brand1:Core
Predecessor:Mobile: Coffee Lake (2nd optimization)
Kaby Lake Refresh (2nd optimization)
Successor:Ice Lake (architecture)
Microarch:Palm Cove
Support Status:Legacy support for iGPU

Cannon Lake is Intel's codename for the 8th generation of Core processors based on Palm Cove, a 10 nm die shrink of the Kaby Lake microarchitecture. As a die shrink, Palm Cove is a new process in Intel's process-architecture-optimization execution plan as the next step in semiconductor fabrication.[1] Cannon Lake CPUs are the first mainstream CPUs to include the AVX-512 instruction set.

Prior to Cannon Lake's launch, Intel launched another 14 nm process refinement with the codename Coffee Lake.[2]

The successor of Cannon Lake is Ice Lake, powered by the Sunny Cove microarchitecture, which represents the architecture phase in the process-architecture-optimization model.[3] [4]

Design history and features

Palm Cove
Designfirm:Intel
L1cache:64KB per core
L2cache:256KB per core
L3cache:2MB per core
Arch:x86-64
Extensions:MMX, AES-NI, CLMUL, RDRAND, FMA3, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, SHA,[5] TXT, TSX, SGX, VT-x, VT-d
Predecessor:Skylake
Successor:Sunny Cove

Cannon Lake was initially expected to be released in 2015[6] /2016, but the release was pushed back to 2018.[7] Intel demonstrated a laptop with an unknown Cannon Lake CPU at CES 2017[8] [9] and announced that Cannon Lake based products would be available in 2018 at the earliest.

At CES 2018 Intel announced that it had started shipping mobile Cannon Lake CPUs at the end of 2017 and would ramp up production in 2018.[10] [11]

On April 26, 2018 in its report on first-quarter 2018 financial results, Intel stated it was currently shipping low-volume 10 nm product and expects 10 nm volume production to shift to 2019.[12] In July 2018, Intel announced that volume production of Cannon Lake would be delayed yet again, to late Q2 2019.[13]

The first laptop featuring a Cannon Lake CPU, namely Intel Core i3-8121U, a dual core CPU with Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost but without an integrated GPU, was released in May 2018 in very limited quantities.[14] [15]

On August 16, 2018 Intel announced two new models of NUCs would use the 10 nm Cannon Lake-U i3-8121U CPU.[16] These models later became more readily available at retail in late November 2018.

On October 28, 2019, Intel announced that it will be discontinuing the i3-8121U and the Cannon Lake-powered Crimson Canyon NUC, with orders being taken till December 27, and shipping till February 28, 2020,[17] [18] making Cannon Lake not only one of the shortest-lived microarchitectures of Intel, but also the shortest-lived 10 nm x86 CPU microarchitecture (with only one CPU model to be released and manufactured for 1.5 years).

In July 2021, Intel announced it would be removing support for Cannon Lake graphics in their Linux kernel driver, effective as of Linux 5.15, as no production Cannon Lake CPUs were shipped with graphics enabled; this removal resulted in a reduction of approximately 1,600 lines of code.[19] [20]

Improvements

Products

Mobile processors

Cannon Lake-U

Common features:

See also

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mujtaba . Hassan . June 6, 2014 . Intel's Cannonlake 10nm Microarchitecture is Due For 2016 - Compatible On Union Bay With Union Point PCH . Wccftech . en-US . September 24, 2014.
  2. News: Carey . Gabe . May 13, 2019 . Intel Coffee Lake release date, news and features . TechRadar . en-US . December 15, 2022.
  3. News: Bourque . Brad . January 25, 2016 . Intel's Kaby Lake will sneak in before the 10nm process . Digital Trends . en-US . February 1, 2016.
  4. News: Eassa . Ashraf . January 25, 2016 . What's the Name of Intel's Third 10-Nanometer Chip? . The Motley Fool . February 1, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160518003820/http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/18/what-is-the-name-of-intels-third-10-nanometer-chip.aspx . May 18, 2016 . dead.
  5. Web site: Kirsch . Nathan . February 21, 2016 . Intel Cannonlake Added To LLVM's Clang – AVX-512 . Legit Reviews . October 23, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161023135525/http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-cannonlake-added-to-llvms-clang_179210 . 2016-10-23 . dead.
  6. Web site: Shilov . Anton . February 16, 2018 . Intel's 10nm Briefly Appears: Dual Core Cannon Lake in Official Documents . AnandTech . en-US . July 30, 2019.
  7. News: Intel confirms tick-tock-shattering Kaby Lake processor as Moore's Law falters . Ars Technica . en-US . July 16, 2015 . April 29, 2017.
  8. Web site: Pressman . Aaron . January 5, 2017 . Here's How Intel Is Finally Getting Back on Track With Moore's Law . Fortune . en-US . February 10, 2017.
  9. News: Intel Kicks Off CES 2017 with VR, Automated Driving, 5G News and Experiences . Intel Newsroom . en-US . January 4, 2017 . February 10, 2017.
  10. News: Cutress . Ian . January 9, 2018 . Intel Mentions 10nm, Briefly . AnandTech . en-US . January 10, 2018.
  11. News: January 9, 2018 . Intel Announces 10nm Cannon Lake Is Shipping . Tom's Hardware . en-US . January 10, 2018.
  12. Web site: Intel Reports First-Quarter 2018 Financial Results . www.intc.com . en-US . April 28, 2018.
  13. News: Novet . Jordan . Ell . Kellie . July 26, 2018 . Intel falls on delay of future chip technology . CNBC . en-US . July 29, 2018.
  14. News: Cannon Lake stumbles into the market: The IdeaPad 330-15ICN is the first laptop with a 10-nm-CPU . NotebookCheck . en-US . May 14, 2018.
  15. Web site: 联想IdeaPad330 八代酷睿I3-8121U游戏性能独显笔记本电脑 超薄本轻薄本办公商务学生本 标配秒杀：4G内存 500G硬盘 2G独显 W10 银色 15.6英寸【图片 价格 品牌 报价】-京东 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180514184215/https://item.jd.com/26395831446.html . dead . May 14, 2018 . zh . May 14, 2018 . May 14, 2018.
  16. News: Paul . Ian . August 16, 2018 . Intel rolls out NUC mini-PCs with 10nm 'Cannon Lake' CPUs and AMD Radeon graphics . PCWorld . en-US . December 30, 2018.
  17. News: Liu . Zhiye . October 31, 2019 . Intel discontinues Cannon Lake NUC . Tom's Hardware . en-US . November 11, 2019.
  18. Web site: Product Change Notification Change Notification #: 117226 - 00. qdms.intel.com.
  19. Web site: Larabel . Michael . July 24, 2021 . Intel To Finally Remove Cannon Lake Graphics Support From Their Linux Kernel Driver. Phoronix . en-US . October 27, 2021.
  20. Web site: Larabel . Michael . August 11, 2021 . Intel Graphics Driver Queues More DG2 Code For Linux While Removing Cannon Lake . Phoronix . en-US . October 27, 2021.

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