Intel Comet Lake CPUs have been confirmed by the company within a recent Linux graphics driver submission. Even while Intel Ice Lake and AMD Ryzen 3000 series CPUs loom overhead, Intel still plans on releasing yet another 14nm Skylake iteration before the year’s up: Intel Comet Lake.

The Linux driver contains the following description of the upcoming processors from Intel (spotted over at Phoronix): “Comet Lake is a Intel Processor containing Gen9 Intel HD Graphics. This patch adds the initial set of PCI IDs. Comet Lake comes off of Coffee Lake – adding the IDs to Coffee Lake ID list. More support and features will be in the patches that follow.”

Expected to launch with up to 10 cores available, Intel’s pushing the Skylake microarchitecture, introduced back in 2015, to its absolute limits before finally retiring it in favour of Intel Ice Lake in 2020. Expected to reach the laptop market by the end of this year, however, Ice Lake will be fitted with Gen11 graphics and Sunny Cove cores built upon the long-awaited and much-delayed 10nm process.