

Intel first launched its 8th Generation Intel Core family processors in August 2017. Its development was led by Intel Israel's processor design team in Haifa, Israel, as an optimization of Kaby Lake. On June 8, 2018, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Intel 8086 CPU architecture, Intel released the i7-8086K as a limited edition CPU, a renumbered and slightly higher clocked batch of the i7-8700K dies. On April 2, 2018, Intel released additional desktop Core i3, i5, i7, Pentium Gold, Celeron CPUs, the first six-core Core i7 and i9 mobile CPUs, hyper-threaded four-core Core i5 mobile CPUs, and the first Coffee Lake ultra-power CPUs with Intel Iris Plus graphics.

Although desktop Coffee Lake processors use the same physical LGA 1151 socket as Skylake and Kaby Lake, the pinout is electrically incompatible with these older processors and motherboards. The generation was defined by another increase of core counts.Ĭoffee Lake is used with the 300-series chipset, and officially does not work with the 100- and 200-series chipset motherboards. To avoid running into thermal problems at high clock speeds, Intel soldered the integrated heat spreader (IHS) to the CPU die instead of using thermal paste as on the Coffee Lake processors. On October 8, 2018, Intel announced what it branded its ninth generation of Core processors, the Coffee Lake Refresh family. Desktop Coffee Lake processors introduced i5 and i7 CPUs featuring six cores (along with hyper-threading in the case of the latter) and Core i3 CPUs with four cores and no hyperthreading. Wa_cq_url: "/content/ It is manufactured using Intel's second 14 nm process node refinement. Wa_audience: "emtaudience:consumer/pcconsumer", Wa_english_title: "Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0",

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