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Intel's 9th Gen Processors Rumored To Launch In October With 8 Cores (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the mark-your-calendar dept.

According to a new report from Wccftech, Intel will introduce new Core i9, i7, and i5 chips on October 1st that will be branded as 9th generation processors. The Verge reports: The mainstream flagship processor, Intel's Core i9-9900K, is expected to ship with 8 cores and 16 threads. Leaked documents show that this will be the first mainstream Core i9 desktop processor, and will include 16 MB of L3 cache and Intel's UHD 620 graphics chip. Even Intel's 9th gen Core i7 processor is expected to ship with 8 cores and 8 threads (up from the current 6 cores), with the Core i5 shipping with 6 cores and 6 threads. Intel is reportedly launching its unlocked overclockable processors first, followed by more 9th generation processors early next year.

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  1. Thank you AMD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thank the old gods and the new that we have a competitive AMD again. How long has intel sat on quad core cpus for for the consumer market? And now suddenly when AMD has competitive 8 core chips on the market, Intel thinks thats what the market is ready for... only now?? 8 cores should have came out a long long time ago so screw you intel holding back the computer industry.

    These 8 core chips coming soon from intel better be very very competitive priced too because they still have the problems with spectre and meltdown which wont be fixed until intel makes a major redesign to their chips.

  2. Up from the current... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even Intel’s 9th gen Core i7 processor is expected to ship with 8 cores and 8 threads (up from the current 6 cores)

    Current i7s are hyperthreaded 6 cores. Be interesting to see if non-hyperthreaded 8 cores outperforms hyperthreaded 6 cores.

  3. More cores by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They're slapping much needed cores in it, unfortunately they price it accordingly, which is a mistake. They should keep the price to the floor at this point, and keep hitting on performance.

    I do some serious number crunching on a dipole model, its done on a cluster of Android TV boxes, each 8 core 64 bit, 30 of them to give 240 cores. Each has its own storage and networking, and RAM making it totally scalable. It's the performance of a supercomputer from 15 years ago. And in total it costs around $2000. Sure each box is half the performance per core that Intel delivers, but so what. Each box costs $55.

    Having processors twice as fast as ARM cores isn't any good if they're more than twice the price.