Intel Announces X299, Skylake-X, and Kaby Lake-X Release Schedule (anandtech.com)

Ian Cutress, writing for AnandTech: At Computex a couple of weeks ago, Intel announced its new Basin Falls platform, consisting of the X299 chipset with motherboards based on it, a pair of Kaby Lake-X processors, and a set of Skylake-X processors going all the way up to eighteen cores, denoting the first use of Intel's enterprise level high core-count silicon in a consumer product. As part of Intel's E3 press release, as well as their presentations at the show, the new Core i9 processors were discussed, along with Intel's continued commitment towards eSports. Intel gave the dates for the new platform as the following: 4, 6, 8 and 10-core parts available for pre-order from June 19th; 4, 6, 8 and 10-core parts shipping to consumers from June 26th; 12-core parts expected to ship in August; and 14, 16 and 18 core parts expected to ship in October.

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Re:HEDT Zen CPUs will probably cost half as much.

[bill_mcgonigle]

Also, considering that Ryzen is decent and currently at 14nm while Global just announced the start of the 7nm production line as well as a 5nm test line, there are going to be some very nice, very affordable AMD laptops coming down the pike probably in time for next year's corporate product refresh.

Intel should be worried it has competition again. They are going to have to compete on price, which they really, really hate to do.