As the CPU war rages on between Intel and AMD, the former seems to be prepared for its next generation of Core processors, codenamed Coffee Lake (can’t they think of a better name?), the 8th generation of Intel Core processors has been spotted on a CPU-Z screenshot as reported by VideoCardz, it reveals a 6-core processor that uses the LGA1151 socket with a TDP of 80W, the base clock speed is a 3.6GHz with a maximum multiplier of 43, we can assume this to be probably a mainstream Core i5 processor.
Intel’s current Kaby Lake mainstream processor feature 4-cores and 8-threads as in the case of the Core i7-7700K, which makes sense for the company to include more Cores to the next generation Core processors to compete with AMD’s Ryzen, which has ousted the 7700K in several benchmarks in our tests, the good news here is that Coffee Lake is still using the LGA1151 socket, which means that older motherboards that supports the Skylake architecture should be able to use the processor with a BIOS update.
Expect Intel to unveil Coffee Lake early 2018, where OEMs and PC builders will announce the use of the chip in events such as CES 2018, time for Intel to buck up.
