DigiTimes have broken the news that Coffee Lake powered laptops will be arriving in September. ASUS and Acer are mentioned by name but you can bet that you will see models released by all major manufacturers. This upgrade will be a refinement of Kaby Lake, both generations will be fabbed on a 14nm process; Cannon Lake will be Intel's first 10nm chip and should be released close to the end of this year. Intel is very hopefully that Coffee Lake will sell well, their representative mentioned a study which found that 450 million PCs still use chips rolled out five years ago. While enthusiasts are unlikely to jump on Coffee Lake, there is a large market for 4k laptops with better battery life among casual users and businesses.
"Leading notebook vendors, such as Taiwan's Asustek Computer and Acer, and many other international brands, will roll out their new 2-in-1 and ultra-thin notebook models utilizing Intel's eighth-generation Coffee Lake mobile CPUs starting September, to grab a larger market pie in the coming peak season, according to industry sources."
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Jeremy said ” While
Jeremy said ” While enthusiasts are unlikely to jump on Coffee Lake” – Maybe you meant HEDT users, but I assure you that plenty of “enthusiasts” are still on 4/8 quad cores, and would welcome the 40% performance increase of 6/12 Coffee Lake.
Remember though, this is an
Remember though, this is an article about notebook processors. The context is not desktop enthusiasts.
That’s right. I have been
That's right. I have been using enthusiast to describe buyers of high end kit for a decade or so. HEDT is just not a phrase I am used to using; feel free to read enthusiast as HEDT users.
So, Coffee Lake comes out in
So, Coffee Lake comes out in September with Cannon Lake by the end of the year (December?)…that’s three months – how on Earth is Coffee Lake going to “sell well?”
Sounds like another Broadwell chip to me.
Was thinking the same thing.
Was thinking the same thing. Whats the point buying laptop now when in 3 months you will have better (14++) cpu?!
8th gen Intel core processors
8th gen Intel core processors are a combination of Kaby Lake Refresh, Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake models. And you aren’t going to get three generations of chips performing the same. You will get, for example, a 15W Cannon Lake model, that will be selling alongside a Kaby Lake 35W model, that will be selling alongside a 65W Coffee Lake model, and all those will be part of the 8th generation of Core processors.
Intel seems to have hit a wall in nonometers and also realized that can’t offer/doesn’t need to offer, every year a completely new line of products. So you will be getting some new products alongside some old products that will be rebrands. Think AMD’s 300 series of GPUs where you had various generations of GPUs selling as one series.
For desktop, the i7-8700k
For desktop, the i7-8700k seem to be ~30% faster on threaded workload and only costing 5% to 7% more.
No matter how people spin this, its an improvement. and its still the ‘same’ TDP of 95w.
So its critical for AMD to move Zen to 7nm next year to compete with intel 10nm .
@Jeremy Hellstrom This isn’t
@Jeremy Hellstrom This isn’t Coffee Lake, it’s Kaby Lake R.
http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/126287/Kaby-Lake-R
Coffee Lake will come a month later, as has been hinted by Intel.
That’s how rumours work.
That's how rumours work.