Re:Cannon Lake: Intel’s Forgotten Generation – Chips and Cheese
by adrian_b on Sunday November 20, 2022 @11:35AM
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"8th gen" is indeed an extreme case, with a very large number of slightly different microarchitectures being covered by this name, due to a chaos at Intel, caused both by the failed 10 nm process and by the Meltdown and Spectre bugs.
Nevertheless, all the "Kaby Lake" proper are "7th gen", not "8th gen".
Among the "8th gen" there are only "Kaby Lake R" (R from Refresh) and "Kaby Lake G" (G from GPU, i.e. discrete AMD GPU on package).
There are also 2 kinds of CPUs that have been weirdly branded as "8th gen", but which, both based on the date of their launch and on their features should have been branded as "9th gen", together with Coffee Lake Refresh: Whiskey Lake U and Amber Lake Y.
The remaining CPUs branded as "8th gen" were Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake U.
Nevertheless, all the "Kaby Lake" proper are "7th gen", not "8th gen".
Among the "8th gen" there are only "Kaby Lake R" (R from Refresh) and "Kaby Lake G" (G from GPU, i.e. discrete AMD GPU on package).
There are also 2 kinds of CPUs that have been weirdly branded as "8th gen", but which, both based on the date of their launch and on their features should have been branded as "9th gen", together with Coffee Lake Refresh: Whiskey Lake U and Amber Lake Y.
The remaining CPUs branded as "8th gen" were Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake U.