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Intel to unveil Basin Falls, launch Coffee Lake ahead of schedule
Monica Chen, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 19 April 2017]
Intel will unveil its Basin Falls platform, i.e. Skylake-X, Kaby Lake-X processors and X299 chipset, at Computex 2017 in Taipei during May 30-June 3 two months earlier than originally scheduled, and will bring forward the launch of Coffee Lake microarchitecture based on a 14nm process node from January 2018 originally to August 2017, to cope with increasing competition from AMD's Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 processors, according to Taiwan-based PC vendors.
The Basin Falls-based products are expected to be launched at the E3 gaming show in the US in June, with the official release at the end of the month.
The Skylake-X series has three 140W processors featuring 6-, 8- and 10-core architectures, while the Kaby Lake-X series has an 112W quad-core processor. In August, Intel will release a top-end 12-core Skylake-X processor.
Meanwhile, AMD is planning to announce its top-end 16-core Ryzen processor and X399 platform in the third quarter to compete for the gaming market.
As for the 14nm-based Coffee Lake-based processors, Intel will initially release several K-series Core i7/i5/i3 processors and its Z370 chipsets in August, and will release more CPUs as well as H370, B360 and H310 chipsets at the end of 2017 or early 2018.
Intel has reportedly spent over US$100 million to order five EUV machine sets from ASML, to accelerate its pace of manufacturing.
Intel and AMD both declined to comment on unannounced products.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20170419PD207.html
Holy crap I was few weeks away from decision to to order 7700K CPU and Z270 motherboard until I read stunning news Intel accelerate Coffee Lake CPUs with up to 6 cores and new Z370 chipset to hit market in August so now I put it off for 6 core Coffee Lake CPU and Z370 motherboard, pointless to buy 7700K now.