All it is that i7 will move to true 8 cores and will not have hyper threading. i5 will remain the same though i predict it may get hyper threading but then again it may defeat the object of getting a i7 depending on price. i3 will become quad core if i5 gets hyper threading or remain the same.
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Intel's Cannonlake generation could be going to eight cores?
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I cant see it tbh, 6 and 8 core will remain the mainstay of intels X series. 4 core 8 thread max for mainstream such as the current 6700k. But at least prices are down a bit, on x58 the chips above 920/30/50 etc cost a fortune. Now the hex core 5820k is as cheap as chips. I moved to x99 as 6700k sounded a bit meh from owning a 4.7ghz capable 4790k. Which you were stuck with that 4 core 8 thread bug for certain tasks.
I can see it now.
8 core 16 thread Zen hits the market at £450 with 8 core Haswell-E performance.
With in a week the internet is flooded with "8 core Intel go mainstream soon" the same message gets rewritten and republished over and over again, 3 months of this rhetoric later a new 8 core Intel chip hits the market, its 10% faster. £700 instead of £800.
8 core 16 thread Zen hits the market at £450 with 8 core Haswell-E performance.
With in a week the internet is flooded with "8 core Intel go mainstream soon" the same message gets rewritten and republished over and over again, 3 months of this rhetoric later a new 8 core Intel chip hits the market, its 10% faster. £700 instead of £800.
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There's not a chance in hell that's happening.
And if they did, then anyone repeating the Intel rhetoric would be insane.
Actually there is a big difference between Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E/Haswell-E, an overclocked SB-E kicks out a lot of heat like a FX8350 and also stresses the motherboard VRM's. IB-E/HW-E appear to run hotter according to the internal sensors but they don't kick out anywhere near the same amount of heat and the VRM's don't get as hot. Intel mainstream using those improvements for a beefier iGPU was not surprising as they are basically mobile centric processors.
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