Intel Mostly Cancels Cooper Lake: Is This Good News for 10nm?

Intel has confirmed that it won’t be launching the full line-up of Cooper Lake CPUs it had previously expected to deploy. As a reminder, Cooper Lake was the 14nm CPU expected to introduce Intel’s support for bfloat16, a new floating-point standard intended to be more useful for AI and machine learning calculations than the old FP16 standard.As originally planned, Cooper Lake was going to drop near the end of 2019 before being replaced by a 2020 Ice Lake part. Cooper Lake would featur