By Bill Thomas
In 2017, Intel reacted to the threat of Threadripper by pumping out high core count (HCC) Skylake-X processors in the consumer space. And, while processors like the Core i9-7980XE outperformed the highest-end Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, they were also much more expensive, leading more enthusiast consumers to go with AMD’s high-end desktop (HEDT) solution .
While Threadripper 2nd Generation is all but a foregone conclusion, Intel has been relatively quiet about its next generation (HEDT) processors. However, we’re expecting Cascade Lake-X will succeed the Skylake-X family of high-end desktop processors by the end of the year.
Unlike last year, where Intel announced and then released Skylake-X processors at Computex 2017, all we saw at Computex 2018 was a vague 28-core processor. While Intel has since clarified that this 28-core behemoth was running on a 14nm architecture and can overclock to 5GHz, it didn’t clarify which architecture it was based upon.
However, shortly after its mini debut, multiple sites labeled the 28-core CPU as a Cascade Lake-X processor that utilized the a LGA3647 socket typically reserved for Xeon chips. This leads us to believe it could either be a preview of what’s to come – …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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