Coffee Lake µarch
Arch Type	CPU
Designer	Intel
Manufacturer	Intel
Introduction	2018
Process	0.014 μm 1.4e-5 mm 14 nm
Succession
←	→
Kaby Lake	Cannonlake

Coffee Lake (CFL) is a planned microarchitecture by Intel as a successor to Kaby Lake for high-power notebooks in second quarter of 2018. Coffee Lake appears to be a variant of Cannonlake (including all its features) manufactured on Intel's mature 14 nm process. Coffee Lake is said to introduce the first series mainstream hexa-core processors.

Codenames

Core	Abbrev	Description	Graphics	Target
Coffee Lake U	CFL-U	Ultra-low power	GT2	Light notebooks, portable All-in-Ones (AiOs), Minis, and conference room
Coffee Lake H	CFL-H	High-performance graphics	GT3e	Ultimate mobile performance, mobile workstations
Coffee Lake S	CFL-S	High-performance graphics	GT3e	Desktop performance to value, AiOs, and minis
Coffee Lake X	CFL-X	Extreme Performance		High performance desktops

Technology

Main article: Broadwell § Technology

Coffee Lake is is manufactured on Intel's 3rd generation 14 nm process called "14++". The process is the second enhanced version of the first which was used for the Broadwell microarchitecture (first enhanced version was first used for Kaby Lake). The various enhancements improve performance without increasing the capacitance (i.e., active power characteristics). 14++ allows for +23-24% higher drive current. Intel claims their 14++ process provides 26% more performance for 52% less power.

Architecture

Not much is known about Coffee Lake's architecture.

Key changes from Kaby Lake

Preliminary Data! Information presented in this article deal with future products, data, features, and specifications that have yet to be finalized, announced, or released. Information may be incomplete and can change by final release.

• Chipset
  • 200 Series chipset → 300 Series chipset (Cannonlake PCH)
    • Integrated USB 3.1 (10 Gib/s)
      • Up to 6 ports
    • Integrated Intel wireless controller (IEEE 802.11ac)
• Over 15% in performance - it's currently unknown if this is done through up-binning or through IPC improvement or a combination of both.

All Coffee Lake Chips

	Coffee Lake Chips
	Main processor													IGP			Major Feature Diff
Model	Launched	Price	Family	Platform	Core	C	T	L3$	L4$	TDP	Freq	Turbo	Max Mem	Name	Freq	Turbo	TBT	HT	AVX2	TXT	TSX	vPro	VT-d
	Uniprocessors
	No Coffee Lake Chips have been released yet.
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