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When do the new Intel chips hit ?

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8 core 16 thread and above is what I'm interested at mainstream prices like the 8700k.

Haven't gone to that as it's not enough of a speed bump over my current setup.
 
They haven't announced anything AFAIK and Meltdown/Spectre might've delayed their initial plans. Despite anything else, they would probably not announce anything until after Pinnacle Ridge comes out (April) so they can see where they stand.

I believe this is the most recent leaked roadmap and it shows nothing in 2018, which is what I have predicted for a while (at least back when Coffee Lake launched). We don't even know yet if their next desktop chips will be Coffee Lake refresh or Icelake, although it's a decent bet that they'll indeed exist in 8 core variants.

I'd like to take this opportunity to laugh at people that predicted Icelake would be released in late 2017 or early 2018 after Kaby Lake came out. :p
 
There was also a leak showing Z390 in 2H 2018 and this rumoured to support 8-core. But CPU support and availability are not the same thing.
 
I don't see Intel offering 8 cores for desktop platform at least for year and more unless AMD takes single core/thread performance lead.
We're talking about company which kept desktop platform at four cores for decade...
Along with dragging dual cores forcing game developers take PCs which could basically dedicade only one core for game into account.
 
EsaT said:
I don't see Intel offering 8 cores for desktop platform at least for year and more unless AMD takes single core/thread performance lead.
We're talking about company which kept desktop platform at four cores for decade...
Along with dragging dual cores forcing game developers take PCs which could basically dedicade only one core for game into account.
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I don't think they'll delay with going to 8 cores, i wouldn't be that surprised if they do it middle or late this year.

Icelake will be interesting to see if there's much of an increase in clocks/IPC.. Currently there's nothing that makes me want to switch from my 5820k, i might even hold onto it until DDR5 comes along if it's due to come to consumers by 2020.
 
Are we not still waiting on CFL? Apart from the few SKU's released. I predict a paper launch to coincide with AMD's next release of Zen.
 
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