Intel's 8-Core Coffee Lake Mainstream Processor Allegedly Debuting In September

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The core wars are heating up, and right now AMD has the upper hand, as it pertains to providing more cores for mainstream consumers to play with. Conventional wisdom says it is only a matter of time before Intel releases an 8-core chip that is not part of its high-end desktop (HEDT) or Xeon product lines. The question is, when will that happen? Well, rumor has it that Intel is prepping an 8-core Coffee Lake processor for a September launch.


There was no such announcement at Computex earlier this month, so take all this with a pinch of salt. Word of the upcoming launch comes by way of an author at PCWatch, who claims to have heard the news from several OEM makers at the show. What they supposedly said and are apparently privy to is Intel's plan for a "Coffee Lake Refresh," similar to when it introduced its Kaby Lake Refresh (Kaby Lake-R) processors.

What's different, of course, that Coffee Lake-R will consist of at least one 8-core CPU. It's also presumably aimed at the desktop, not mobile. As with the regular Coffee Lake lineup, this 8-core part will slip into socket LGA1151 motherboards. We suspect that includes the current crop of LGA1151 motherboards with a simple BIOS update.

 

[plat]

Time flies, right?

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[Vitali Ortzi]

Time flies, right?

Intel Discontinues 8th Gen Core "Coffee Lake" Desktop Processor Family

Intel today issued a product change notice announcing the discontinuation of its 8th generation Core desktop processor family, and models of Pentium Gold and Celeron processors based on the 14 nm "Coffee Lake" silicon. The PCN covers every 8th gen SKU in the retail- and OEM channels. The company...

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Yes.
Hopefully we will have the powerful Intel graphics soon.

 

[shmu26]

Why is 8 core something new? I just bought a desktop with a 9th gen i7 CPU, and it has 8 cores.

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