Would an 8-Core Intel Corp. Coffee Lake Chip Be Prohibitively Expensive?
On Oct. 5, Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) new desktop processors based on its Coffee Lake architecture went up for sale. These new chips are the first products to hit the market built using the company's new 14nm++ manufacturing technology, which promises a roughly 10% performance uplift over its previous-generation 14nm+ technology used to build its older Kaby Lake processors, and are offered in variants with up to six physical processor cores.
A little while back, computer maker Eurocom, which builds laptops with desktop-grade processors inside, inadvertently revealed that Intel is planning to release an eight-core chip during the second half of 2018. At first, it appeared this part would be based on Intel's Ice Lake architecture and be manufactured using the company's second-generation 10nm+ technology. However, evidence began to mount that it would simply be an eight-core variant of the six-core parts Intel just launched.
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