3 Things You Need to Know About Intel Corp.'s New Gaming Chips

Late on Sept. 24, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced a new family of chips code-named Coffee Lake, targeted at the desktop personal-computer market. This volley of chips, which seem primarily aimed at the gaming and enthusiast portion of the desktop PC market, will become available for purchase on Oct. 5, Intel says.

Here are three things you should probably know about these new chips.

The key selling point of these new Coffee Lake processors compared with the previous generation Kaby Lake chips is that, even though they have more cores than their predecessors, pricing from the previous generation hasn't budged.

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