Posted on Tuesday, May 26 2020 @ 14:22 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Measurements of the die reveal it's still 9.2mm wide but the length has increased by 2.8mm to 22.4mm. This results in a die area of 206.1mm² for this ten-core part, whereas the eight-core 9900K had a die area of 180.3mm². That's 14 percent more and the 9900K was already a 17 percent increase versus the 8700K's 153.6mm².
TechPowerUp writes it doesn't seem likely that Intel can turn this into a 12-core product without having to remove the integrated graphics:
It was discovered that the 10-core "Comet Lake" die measures 206.1 mm² in die-area. It is 9.2 mm wide like its predecessors, "Coffee Lake" 8-core, 6-core, and 4-core, but is 22.4 mm long, with the outer edges of its packaging material barely within a couple of millimeters of the adhesion point of the integrated heatspreader (IHS). Given what we know about how much each pair of cores adds to these dies, we predict that Intel cannot elongate this die to 12 cores, without having to remove the iGPU.der8auer also notes that using liquid metal TIM and running the processor without its lid results in a 7°C lower temperature.
