Intel Cannon Lake

Product lines

The product lines built on Cannon Lake, with the market segment the vendor sells each in and the sockets or soldered (BGA) packages its processors come in. Each socket links to the vendor page that states it.

Product line	Segment	Socket	Source
8th generation Core (Core i3-8121U)	mobile	BGA (package not named by Intel)	intel.com

Feature checklist

Features required by each x86-64 level and whether Cannon Lake has them. OSFXSR and OSXSAVE are set by the operating system; the table checks the hardware features they depend on.

Feature	Cannon Lake	Enumerated by	Linux flag
x86-64-v1
CMOV	Yes	`CPUID.01H:EDX[15]`	`cmov`
CX8	Yes	`CPUID.01H:EDX[8]`	`cx8`
FPU	Yes	`CPUID.01H:EDX[0]`	`fpu`
FXSR	Yes	`CPUID.01H:EDX[24]`	`fxsr`
MMX	Yes	`CPUID.01H:EDX[23]`	`mmx`
OSFXSR via FXSR	Yes	`CPUID.01H:EDX[24]`	`fxsr`
SCE	Yes	`CPUID.80000001H:EDX[11]`	`syscall`
SSE	Yes	`CPUID.01H:EDX[25]`	`sse`
SSE2	Yes	`CPUID.01H:EDX[26]`	`sse2`
x86-64-v2
CMPXCHG16B	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[13]`	`cx16`
LAHF-SAHF	Yes	`CPUID.80000001H:ECX[0]`	`lahf_lm`
POPCNT	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[23]`	`popcnt`
SSE3	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[0]`	`pni`
SSE4.1	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[19]`	`sse4_1`
SSE4.2	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[20]`	`sse4_2`
SSSE3	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[9]`	`ssse3`
x86-64-v3
AVX	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[28]`	`avx`
AVX2	Yes	`CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[5]`	`avx2`
BMI1	Yes	`CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[3]`	`bmi1`
BMI2	Yes	`CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[8]`	`bmi2`
F16C	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[29]`	`f16c`
FMA	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[12]`	`fma`
LZCNT	Yes	`CPUID.80000001H:ECX[5]`	`abm`
MOVBE	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[22]`	`movbe`
OSXSAVE via XSAVE	Yes	`CPUID.01H:ECX[26]`	`xsave`
x86-64-v4
AVX512F	Yes	`CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[16]`	`avx512f`
AVX512BW	Yes	`CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[30]`	`avx512bw`
AVX512CD	Yes	`CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[28]`	`avx512cd`
AVX512DQ	Yes	`CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[17]`	`avx512dq`
AVX512VL	Yes	`CPUID.(EAX=07H,ECX=0):EBX[31]`	`avx512vl`

Other extensions

Notable extensions outside the x86-64 levels. Vendors sometimes disable these on individual models. Linked names lead to the extension's instructions.

AES-NI
PCLMULQDQ
SHA
RDRAND
RDSEED
ADX
AVX512-IFMA
AVX512-VBMI

Known vulnerabilities

The CVEs that the sources of the vulnerability list name as affecting Cannon Lake, in all of its models or in some of them.

CVE-2025-40300 VMSCAPE
CVE-2022-29901 Retbleed: Return Stack Buffer Underflow
CVE-2022-0004 Intel BIOS, UEFI and SMM: Boot Guard and TXT lock override
CVE-2019-1125 Spectre variant 1: Spectre v1 swapgs
CVE-2017-5753 Spectre variant 1: Bounds Check Bypass
CVE-2017-5715 Spectre variant 2: Branch Target Injection

Product lines

Feature checklist

Other extensions

Known vulnerabilities

Other Intel Core (client) microarchitectures

Sources