By Joe Osborne
Intel is evangelizing its 8th-generation Core i series with reckless abandon, most recently detailing the upcoming desktop chip line to Chinese manufacturing partners in a private session it had to know would inevitably leak online.
Just ahead of an August 21 official reveal, the leak comes courtesy of a photo from the session posted on a Chinese computing forum known as ChipHell, later picked up by none other than Anandtech before the post was removed from the forum.
As per the leaked photo, Intel’s desktop processors – from Core i3-8100 to Core i7-8700K – will enjoy increases in core count by 100% and 50%, respectively.
Specifically, 8th generation Intel Core i3 processors will be quad-core by default, meanwhile both Core i5 and Core i7 chips will be hexa-core standard. However, the devil is in the details here, unsurprisingly.
While Intel is upping the core count of every tier of Core i processor, the firm is removing hyper-threading from the i3 line in comparison to last generation’s product, and not bringing it to the i5 line – on par with last year.
Of course, the i7 line’s hyper-threading remains untouched, for such a move would likely be …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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