Intel wants to counteract the arrival of the AMD Ryzen 3 with Intel Coffee Lake processors, which will have six cores and twelve processing threads, possibly arriving in the last quarter of the year.

The arrival of the AMD Ryzen processors on the market has been a blow to Intel, since the Kaby Lake have been processors of a somewhat fair power and have not been so well received in the market, as expected, especially by the i7 7700K processor problems, which get extremely hot even with large and powerful heatsinks. The solution is through the arrival of Coffee Lake, a new family of processors, which will allow Intel to make the leap to six cores.

This eighth generation of Intel processors will have the same socket as the Skylake and the Kaby Lake, the LGA 1151, which will come with the codename Coffee Lake. The new Intel processors will also come with motherboards and new chipset, the Intel 300 Series. As with the Kaby Lake, these Coffee Lake can be installed on a motherboard with an LGA 1151 socket from previous generations, of course, losing PCI lines and only through a BIOS update that allows compatibility and allows recognition of these new processors.

Coffee Lake will arrive with a top of the range of six cores and twelve processing threads in the Core i7, while the mid-range, the Core i5, will have six cores and six processing threads, according to rumors. We know so far that the i7 8700K and the i7 8700 will arrive, two 6C / 12T processors, counting in the mid-range with the i5 8600K and the i5 8400 of 6C / 6T. The Core i7 will have 12MB of L3 cache and the Core i5 will have 9MB of L3 cache, according to the leaks and will have Boost 2.0 mode and Boost 3.0 mode, which will be applied only to the best core of the set. It seems that Intel would launch them between the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth, before Christmas.

Source: TPU