First 10nm Cannon Lake Laptop Spotted Online: Lenovo Ideapad 330 for $449

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Intel’s first 10nm processor has debuted in the form of Lenovo’s Ideapad 330, which is now available through certain venues in China. The device is definitely on the lower end, with a 2.2 GHz base clock and no integrated graphics. Some say that Intel’s 10nm is simply disappointing, as it is years late, features fewer cores than originally envisioned, and has clocks that are a regression from 14nm.

It is a 2.2 GHz Dual Core with a boost up to 3.1GHz with no iGPU. That is disgraceful really, and it shows how much of a mess that Intel's 10nm really is. A chip that is two years late has no iGPU, and it can't even surpass 3.5GHz in a 15w package like its 14nm brothers do? (See Kaby Lake R.) That is both uninspiring and disappointing, Intel.
 
So Intel is doing a "rushed" release of a crippled chip without iGPU , 4GB of RAM and a 1366x768 TN should not be allowed in 2018.
 
Seems odd given it's a China only release.. maybe these were test batch chips and they decided to release them to recoup costs?
 
sirmonkey1985 said:
Seems odd given it's a China only release.. maybe these were test batch chips and they decided to release them to recoup costs?
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Probably still a piss poor attempt at trying to circumvent to recent news about 10nm more delays that they themselvwes recently announced.

Things don't look good, specially with these in the wild.
 
sounds to me like they are trying to work out the kinks in their 10nm while recuperating some of the costs by manufacturing simpler chips with a profitable yield.
 
DF-1 said:
wait, so 10nm is out? we just had a report saying its delayed yet again.
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You have to remember these things aren't binary. It isn't like they do a certain amount of development and suddenly they know how to make 10nm and all their shit changes over. There's a long process of building (or redoing) a fab and then working on the process. Intel has been making 10nm parts for some time now in Oregon. However they are having issues with the process and yields, it hasn't been ready to go prime-time. In chip-fab terms they usually call that stage (ramping).

Well what they may have decided to do is start selling some low volume parts. Perhaps they can produce enough of those to meet demand and make some money off of it until they have it ready for a larger scale. Also perhaps the sort of yield issues they are having mainly affect larger chips so a small dual core with no iGPU can be produced with acceptable yields whereas a larger 4 core with iGPU would fail too often.
 
So is it significantly cheaper for them to make this CPU on a 10nm process? Maybe they are currently more interested in cost savings than increasing performance.
 
So the rumours of a slower process for first few spins is true.
 
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