EMIB? Maybe I shouldn't post until I've read it. Wanted to venture a guess though.
After reading it. Thought Ice Lake would be that new design:
"Cannonlake will be the very first CPU built on their new 10nm process. As Intel gets better at it, Ice Lake continues to be on a 10nm process and will be bring in a brand new architecture in 2018 follow by Tiger Lake in 2019."
They need to do something because GPU performance increases come so quick that we're very near CPUs choking the life ouf of them. They need an excellent redesign and propel them forward. Incidentally I watched an interview with an Nvidia engineer after having these musings and he said the same thing. Gaining exceptional performance from new CPUs isn't as easy as new GPUs where they can simply throw more cores at it. For CPUs this is much more difficult, as rely more in frequency (and we're hitting a wall shortly) and throwing more cores on it doesn't equally propel them. I'll be eagerly following this!
