Moore’s Law is soon to be old news. As we know, Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a circuit doubles every two years. Intel has made an interesting announcement that will make Moore hiccup.
Intel has announced Kaby Lake as part of its 2016 chipset. Kaby Lake will continue to use 14 nanometer processes, but we will see a surprise in 2017. Intel expects to shrink chips to 10 nanometers with it's Cannon Lake chips. Because the expected shrinkage delays Moore’s Law, we’re looking at double every two and a half years rather than two.
Simply stated, Intel is struggling to keep up with Moore’s Law. So instead of being on track and delivering us a 10 nanometer chip now, we’ve been given a placeholder, Kaby Lake- the third 14 nanometer product. While it’s not the 10 nanometer we were hoping and expecting, Kaby Lake will have key performance enhancements.
The future holds more complex technology. The more complex the technology gets, the harder it is to keep up. We will soon see wrinkles in the rest of the industry as well. You can expect to see Kaby Lake in the second half of 2016, though we have to wait until the second half of 2017 for Cannon Lake.
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