Intel's Cannonlake to offer CPU's with more Cores

Intel's Roadmap to 'Cannonlake'

 Although Intel are no stranger to offering high-performance CPU's with a high core count such as the Intel Core i7-5960X processor with 8 cores and 16 threads, these processors are top of the line and carry a heavy price tag. For years Intel have only offered it's mainstream processors with 2 and 4 core count and a maximum of 8 threads on models with Hyperthreading.

This is all about to change according to a LinkedIn profile spotted by Motley Fool, of an Intel engineer which the profile describes he or she is working on the upcoming 'Cannonlake' SoC that "integrates 4/6/8 cores and Converged Coherent Fabric (CCF) which acts like a NorthBridge".

The reason of Intel's move to offer more cores could be a response to AMD's upcoming 'Zen' microarchitecture which will offer high core count CPU's. As Intel will move to a smaller 10nm manufacturing process in 'Cannonlake' it's plausible that Intel will increase the amount of CPU cores due to the smaller die.