Intel has been doing some rather strange things in the processor market lately. Their latest move is developing a processor without a Boost frequency, codenamed Intel CC150. This unusual processor appears to be aimed at the high-end market, but it will operate at a fixed frequency. The Boost frequency has been eliminated, as is already the case with entry-level Celeron and Pentium processors.
Intel is currently having significant problems meeting market demand for processors. The company has a demand well above its current production capacity. This problem is given, above all, by the great delay suffered by the 10nm lithography. This has caused it to outsource the production of a large number of chips.
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This processor called Intel CC150 would be based on the Coffee Lake Refresh architecture. The processor contacts and IHS are the same as the company's current processors. This curious processor also has 8 cores and 16 threads working at a fixed frequency of 3.5GHz. The working voltage of this processor is no less curious, which varies between 0.672V and 1.008V. The TDP of this processor is also curious and it has a TDP of 95W.
Rumors suggest that it could be a processor intended for servers for the NVIDIA GeForce Now service. According to the image posted by Zhihu, this processor would not be a commercial solution. Perhaps it is an exception specially developed for NVIDIA, who could demand a high volume of processors and of course, to see who says no to a good sum of money.
Said processor also has the SRFBT code, whose 'S' indicates that it is a production chip, not an engineering chip. We also found the batch code L909E392, which indicates that this processor was manufactured by Intel's plant in Malaysia in the ninth week of 2019.
Zhihu has used this Intel CC150 processor on an ASRock Z390 Extreme 4 motherboard, along with 16GB DDR4 @ 2666MHz. Based on the data from the CPU-Z, this processor is 15% more powerful than the Core i7-8700K in multicore. In single-core the Core i7-8700K processor is 4% more powerful.
Source: TH
