One of the new processor architectures that Intel will release is Intel ice Lake, some new information was spotted as Intel seems to be creating bigger L1 data 48KB and L2 cache 512KB caches.

Basically, the base design remains very much the same towards the current Coffee lake generation, however, for Ice Lake at least the L2 cache is expected to double, among other things. Something Intel already did in the server segment.

According to entries in benchmark databases, Intel will create an architecture natively at 512 Kbytes of L2 cache per core. The listed four-core processors from in the U-segment have a  15 watts TDP and are listed at 4 × 512 KB L2 cache, which gets supported by an 8 MB L3 cache.  New entries in the benchmark database of Geekbench now also confirm the findings Not only the L2 cache per core is increased, but also the L1 cache adjusted. The L1 data cache will increase by 50 percent.

Ice Lake is also seeing a new iGPU. While Skylake Gen9 can also be found in Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake and minimally in Cannon Lake , the eleventh generation is to take another step forward. Gen10 at Cannon Lake consists essentially of an increase in execution units - this is also being pursued in Gen11. The presumed GT2 is already based on 48 EUs.

It will remain uncertain when the new architecture actually will be released. That could be by the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020.

Intel Ice Lake architecture listed with increased L1 data cache 48KB and L2 cache 512KB