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Intel Unveils New Coffee Lake 8th Gen Core Line-Up With First Core i9 Mobile CPU (hothardware.com)

Posted by msmash on from the good-timing dept.

MojoKid writes: Intel is announcing a big update to its processor families today, with new 8th Gen Coffee Lake-based Core chips for both mobile and desktop platforms. On the mobile side of the equation, the most interesting processors are no doubt Intel's new six-core Coffee Lake parts, starting with the Core i7-8750H. This processor comes with base/max single-core turbo boost clocks of 2.2GHz and 4.2GHz respectively, while the Core i7-8850H bumps those clocks to 2.6GHz and 4.3GHz respectively. Both processors have six cores (12 threads), a TDP of 45 watts and 9MB of shared Smart Cache.However, the new flagship processor is without question the Intel Core i9-8950HK, which is the first Core i9-branded mobile processor. It retains the 6/12 (core/thread) count of the lower-end parts, but features base and turbo clocks of 2.9GHz and 4.8GHz respectively. The chip also comes unlocked since it caters to gaming enthusiasts and bumps the amount of Smart Cache to 12MB. Intel is also announcing a number of lower powered Coffee Lake-U series chips for thin and light notebooks, some of which have on board Iris Plus integrated graphics with 128MB of on-chip eDRAM, along with some lower powered six-core and quad-core desktop chips that support the company's Optane memory in Intel's new 300 series chipset platform.

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  1. New CPUs come in so they refuse to fix Spectre by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the meantime they have posted that there will be *NO* microcode updates for the older generations as stated in https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-update-guidance.pdf (serach for "stopped").

    There are software workarounds, but well... still leaves a bad taste considering they originally wanted to develop new microcode for those generations.

  2. Re:Have they fixed Meltdown and Spectre? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. Only workarounds in microcode that reduce performance.

  3. Re:Have they fixed Meltdown and Spectre? by Billly+Gates · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. Only workarounds in microcode that reduce performance.

    Neither. Branch prediction is so Central to the CPU architecture that it can't be disabled. MS is working on it's compiler to see if can do special assembly tricks to hide the cache.

    Linux has kernel hacks which attempt to hide the data from the cache which hackers can still overide with skill

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