Intel Corp. Reportedly Prepping 8-Core Gaming Chip for 2018

Back in January of this year, microprocessor giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) launched the Core i7-7700K, a quad-core chip based on its Kaby Lake architecture targeted specifically at the PC enthusiast and gaming crowd. That crowd isn't a large part of the personal-computer market, but it's one that has been experiencing phenomenal growth for quite a while now.

The chip was largely viewed as an incremental improvement from its prior-generation Core i7-6700K chip, based on the Skylake architecture. The 7700K ran at faster speeds out of the box and could be pushed to higher peak speeds through user tweaking than the quad-core Core i7-6700K could hit.

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