We are already using laptops with the new 7th generation Intel Core Kaby Lake chips Lake", and desktop computers with these chips will be available for sale in early 2017. The first low-power laptops, 2-in-1 devices, and desktop computers with Celeron and Pentium chips based on Intel's Apollo Lake designs should also be available soon.
So what's next? Right! Cannon Lake, Coffee Lake, and Germini Lake chips.
Now that Intel is marketing its Atom chips as products for IoT, robotics, drones, and other embedded systems, the 4- to 10-watt Celeron and Pentium chips are the cheapest, lowest-performance processors for traditional PCs like laptops, desktops, and 2-in-1 devices.
Gemini Lake is the codename for the chips that will eventually replace the Apollo Lake processors coming this fall. But we'll have to wait a while before they arrive: the first Gemini Lake chips are scheduled to launch in the fourth quarter of 2017.
There's not much information about the chips at the moment other than their codename, but we do know that they'll be available in 4W and 6W variants, just like the early members of Intel's "N" series processor family.
The chips that will eventually replace Skylake and Kaby Lake processors in most portable notebooks are codenamed "Cannon Lake," and they're also scheduled to launch in late 2017... perhaps a little later than Gemini Lake.
These chips are expected to introduce a new graphics architecture, and they'll likely be the first Intel chips built with using a 10nm process.
Like Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake, the new Cannon Lake mobile chips will be divided into two product families: U-series chips for mainstream laptops and Y-series chips for ultra-low power systems.
Intel's Coffee Lake chips are expected to include Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 processors that use between 15W and 45W of power in the second quarter of 2018.
Unlike Cannon Lake, Coffee Lake processors are expected to be 14nm chips.
The entry-level 15W Coffee Lake-U variant will feature a dual-core processor in laptops. There will also be a 28W Coffee Lake-U system-on-chip (SoC), which will be a quad-core processor for laptops. The 45W Coffee Lake-H chips are higher-performance 6-core processors. These chips are also designed for laptops, but since they generate much more heat than Cannon Lake or Gemini Lake chips, we likely won't see the new H-series processors in thin-and-light laptops.
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