Intel's 8th generation processors, which will be launched in the second half of 2017, will bring a slight increase in performance, according to Intel. For the fourth year in a row, those from Intel will produce these processors using a 14nm manufacturing process and will offer a performance increase of only 15% compared to the previous generation.
This increase in performance will be practically imperceptible in day-to-day use, so probably the 8th generation Intel processors will not be so appreciated. Those from Intel had warned that the days of major performance improvements have disappeared and that updates will be small from this point of view, attention being directed to other features.
More precisely, Intel's 8th generation processors will further improve energy consumption to increase the autonomy of laptops that will use these components. Those from Intel are making a sacrifice on the performance side to focus on autonomy, so theoretically we should have at least a good change on this side.
Intel is developing a 10nm manufacturing process for processors, but the first to benefit from it will be server processors. The Xeon line will probably be manufactured at some point using processors produced with a 10nm manufacturing process, so ordinary consumers will have a long time to wait for their release.
