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release of the laptop-centric 8th-generation Kaby Lake Refresh line of CPUs in August 2017, Intel finally revealed its line of
8th-generation Coffee Lake desktop CPUs to the public in October 2017, along with an entire lineup of processors and motherboards.Then, in
April 2018, Intel released a new line of Coffee Lake H- and U-series processors for laptops, including a new Core i9 CPU that will surely be
powering the best gaming laptops this year
Intel also announced a line of lower-powered T-series desktop processors.In spite of earlier, more modest statements, Intel claims that its
make them work on older boards
immune, and fixes are currently being rolled out.Unsurprisingly, the lineup includes processors in each of the Core i3, i5, i7, and the new
i9 categories.Cut to the chaseWhat is it Intel's 8th-generation desktop CPU architectureWhen is it out October 5thWhat will it cost From
Intel has also announced a new line of 8th generation Coffee Lake CPUs featuring Radeon RX Vega graphics that should be out sometime in the
coming months.Originally, in February 2017, Intel stated that Coffee Lake would surface in the latter half of the year
August 21 livestream reveal of its 8th-generation processors, which turned out to be a refresh of its 7th-generation processors for
Ultrabooks and laptops, called Kaby Lake Refresh.Then, most recently in 2018, H-series Intel Core CPUs should be releasing throughout April
alongside several high-profile laptops
canonical announcement was pricing
that will feature them.Luckily, Intel has revealed a total rundown of the latest 8th-generation Coffee Lake chips since their announcement
And with that reveal, we finally knew that the Santa Clara tech behemoth was going to unleash an entire assortment of processors with a wide
enthusiast consumers, and are perfect for media editing, or any other multi-threaded workloads
plenty of life in the process yet.Again, starting from the ground up, the Intel Core i3 chips this time boast four cores each for the first
time in the mainstream CPU space
totes the same number of cores and threads, but instead opts for a base frequency of 4GHz.As for the Core i5 range, the plain Intel Core
i5-8400 is a now a hexa-core monster, bearing six cores and six threads
The former is yet another six-core demon, albeit with double the number of threads as the i5-8600K
Its overclockable analogue, the Intel Core i7-8700K, poses a threat to the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, sporting six cores, 12 threads and base/boost
clock speeds of 3.7GHz/4.7GHz.And, following the announcement for the anticipated H-Series Coffee Lake Processors, including the Core
Intel has also announced a new line of low-powered T-series desktop CPUs that should effectively fill out the budget segment of the CPU
Lake X chips.There still a ton of news to come
Per our usual advice, we encourage you return to this page periodically for in-depth coverage of the latest Intel Coffee Lake reveals.Joe
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