Cannon Lake is basically a die shrink of Kaby Lake, with better power efficiency, increased performance, and AVX-512 instructions set support. The first mobile Cannon Lake CPUs are expected to hit the laptop market later this year.
TechARP discovered some fresh details about the Cannon Lake-U (CNL-U) processors:
The shorthand numbers appear to indicate that :The first new generation from Intel with hardware-level hardening against Spectre and Meltdown will be the future 10nm Ice Lake architecture.
they are ultra-low power mobile processors, with a 15 W TDP the (2+2) model is a dual-core processor with an Intel GT2 integrated graphics the (2+0) model is a dual-core processor without integrated graphics