During its second quarter earnings call, Intel has announced that it has started shipping of 10th generation "Core" CPUs to OEMs. Making use of 10 nm lithography, 10th generation of "Core" CPUs, code-named Ice Lake, were qualified by OEMs earlier in 2019 in order to be integrated into future products. Ice Lake is on track for holiday season of 2019, meaning that we can expect off the shelf products by the end of this year. That is exciting news as 10th generation of Core CPUs is bringing some exciting micro-architectural improvements along with long awaited and delayed Intel's 10nm manufacturing process node.

The new CPUs are supposed to get around 18% IPC improvement on average when looking at direct comparison to previous generation of Intel CPUs, while being clocked at same frequency. This time, even regular desktop parts will get AVX512 support, alongside VNNI and Cryptography ISA extensions that are supposed to bring additional security and performance for ever increasing number of tasks, especially new ones like Neural Network processing. Core configurations will be ranging from dual core i3 to quad core i7, where we will see total of 11 models available.