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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Anybody else saw the leaked Intel CPU roadmap? If that one is true, then they won't be able to fight against AMD for long anymore - the first 10nm Chips would be Tiger Lake U/Y mid 2021.

https://wccftech.com/intel-desktop-mobile-cpu-roadmap-leak-14nm-comet-lake-10nm-ice-lake-tiger-lake/

Comet lake would come out in a year or so, and apart from adding 2 more cores, I doesn't seem to do very much. But by that time it will probably have to fight against Zen3/Ryzen 4 already - if not even it's successor!

So unless Intel manages to magically increase the efficiency of their 14nm process and of the core architecture, AMD will trash them for the next 3 years at the very least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7GKywLpzmA

Yeah, I read that.

Technically, the first chips would be in the second quarter of this year with the low power Ice Lake products, followed by Comet Lake in the same quarter of 2020. Still, it's another delay on their 10nm process which will affect them even more.

To be honest, I'm more worried (so to speak) by them "only" adding another pair of cores than the process node. With rumors saying that AMD is going with up to 16 cores with Ryzen, plus the increased IPS and clocks improvements, we could see them obliterating Intel in multi-threaded tasks and giving them a run for their money in single-threaded ones.

Add the fact that next-gen consoles will have an 8-core Zen processor, and soon we may see how PC games start asking for more than 4-cores in their min. req., which would be a bigger problem for Intel than AMD, as they still rely on 4-core parts for their mid-price mainstream products.