Mobile TechReview on Intel 8th Gen. Processors
These Intel 8th Gen, Coffee Lake CPUs are the ones meant to form the bedrock of our gaming rigs for the next year (give or take a few months) and they’re a great barometer of the processor market circa 2018. The fact that Intel introduced a new generation of chips less than a year after the 7th Gen Kaby Lake CPUs shows its unwillingness to cede the mainstream market to AMD’s multi-core Ryzen offerings. The 8th Gen wasn’t meant to launch last year; Intel pulled in pretty much every single CPU release since AMD unveiled their Zen processor architecture, and getting an early start on Coffee Lake was worthwhile given that the AMD Ryzen 2 CPUs landed in April this year.
Coffee Lake, represented here by the top processor in the Intel 8th Gen lineup, the six-core i7 8700K, is a necessary reaction by the chip giant to its rivals massively upping the core-count of its latest processors. But it’s almost just a temporary bandage for Intel’s CPU range while it continues to struggle with its main focus, getting those darned 10nm transistorsfunctional, affordable, and reliable.
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