Intel’s Cannon Lake

Cannon Lake, formerly known as Skymont, is Intel’s codename for the 10-nanometer die shrink of the Kaby Lake microarchitecture. The next step in semiconductor fabrication, Cannon Lake is a new process in Intel’s “Process-Architecture-Optimization” execution plan as a die shrink. Cannon Lake CPUs are the first mainstream CPUs to include the AVX-512 instruction set.

Intel had launched another 14 nm process refinement with the codename Coffee Lake, prior to Cannon Lake’s launch.

Ice Lake will be the successor of Cannon Lake microarchitecture and will represent the architecture phase in the Intel Process-Architecture-Optimization Model

Initially expected to be released in 2016, Canon Lake’s release was pushed back to 2018. While demonstrating a laptop with an unknown Cannon Lake CPU at CES 2017, Intel announced that Cannon Lake based products will be available in 2018 at the earliest.

This year at CES 2018  which was held during Jan 9-12, Intel announced that it had started shipping mobile Cannon Lake CPUs at the end of 2017, the production of which will be ramped up in 2018.

As per Intel’s report on first-quarter 2018 financial results published on April 26, 2018, it stated it was currently shipping low-volume 10 nm product and expects 10 nm volume productions to shift to 2019.

Intel Core I3-8121U, a dual-core CPU with hyperthreading and turbo boost but without an integrated GPU is the first laptop featuring a Cannon Lake CPU and was released in May 2018.