Possibility that 6 core Core i 7 & i 5 will appear at the 8 th generation "Coffee Lake" for mainstream

Intel is the 8th generation Core processor "Coffee Lake" microarchitecture generation CPU with graphics function for main stream, and it is reported that 6 core Core i7 · i5 will be released with planned release. In order to compete with the Ryzen series of rival AMD excellent in cost performance, Intel seems to have lifted the conventional 4 core limit.

Coffee Lake en approche • CPC Hardware
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CPC Hardware is a next-generation CPU "Coffee Lake-S" series under development by Intel that has prepared at least four models including "Core i7-8700K" of 6 cores / 12 threads as the top CPU I report it. The sixth generation "Skylake", the seventh generation "Kaby Lake" and the eighth generation "Coffee Lake" with the graphics function for the main stream are generations that are not much changed as the basic structure of the microarchitecture, but Coffee Lake says that it will eventually bring about a major change that the top model will be 6 cores.


According to CPC Hardware leaked SKU are the following four. "Core i 7-8700 K" of 6 cores / 12 threads with a base frequency of 3.7 GHz, 6 core / 12 threads "Core i 7 - 8700" with a base frequency of 3.2 GHz as a model with "K" "Core i5-8600K" and "Core i5-8400" are also available as 6 core / 6 thread CPUs without hyper threading function. As with the 4-core model up to the Kaby Lake generation, the TDP is expected to maintain 95 W.


The motherboard corresponding to the "Coffee Lake-S" CPU is planned to take over the LGA 1151 platform as usual, and a sudden release within a few months is scheduled. If the eighth generation Coffee Lake series appears in 2017, the seventh generation Kaby Lake series, which was just released in January 2017, can be short-lived.

According to CPC Hardware, there are 6 cores as "Coffee Lake-H" for mobile products, 4 CPUs with TDP of 45 W at maximum 2.0 GHz and 4 Cores as "Coffee Lake-U" with high power saving performance · TDP of 28 W The CPU is provided to the vendor as a sample, and it seems that the test has already begun.

If Core i 7, which was a conventional 4 core / 8 thread, is promoted to 6 cores / 12 threads, Core i 5 which was 4 cores / 4 threads is promoted to 6 cores / 6 threads, Core i 3 · Pentium series also has 4 cores / Whether it is promoted to 8 threads to 4 cores / 4 threads, attention is likely to gather.