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

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.

Comments

This is why competition is good...

[barc0001]

AMD seems to have really shaken up Intel's complacent little world over the last 18 months with the Ryzen.

Re:This is why competition is good...

[Tough Love]

A blow to the ego, certainly, but real damage? I doubt it. ARM bites Intel a whole lot harder.

Re:This is why competition is good...

[Tough Love]

For Intel, ARM is the invisible bite that doesn't show up directly because it is related to the PC market decline, which is entirely explained by people doing without PCs in favor of mobile ARM devices. If it wasn't for ARM, Intel would be sellilng a billion more processors a year than it now does, think about it. Intel badly wanted that mobile market and were utterly defeated. They could easily start peddling ARMs themselves, but not for the margin they got used to and are now dependent on.

Meanwhile. AMD is nice enough to not undercut too much. Not because they don't want to, but because they can't afford it. The last thing Intel should do now is go kill AMD with antitrust thuggery again, that would be extremely unwise, it would just push AMD into the arms of somebody much richer, and much more of a threat. A curious kind of detent we have going on now, with AMD enthusiasts the big winners.

Re:This is why competition is good...

[barc0001]

> 4.5 years ago, Intel announced it was cutting $350 million from it's R&D budget and putting $350 million into diversity programs. Just a coincidence of course.

You know, if you're gonna lie about things, you should pick something that a quick Google search or two won't show to be a porker:

First of all, it's $300 M for diversity programs, to be spent from 2015 to 2020, so they have not spent $350M on it, and the 300 M hasn't had more than 70% spent.

Secondly on the R&D, they've been ADDING to the R&D budget year over year:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/17/heres-how-intel-corp-cut-its-marketing-spending-by.aspx

"During the year, Intel's research and development (R&D) spending grew by just $358 million, a slowdown from the $612 million increase that it saw there during 2016."

I get it, you think diversity programs are a waste of time because Western society is 100% perfect and we totally didn't have racists and Nazis parading this weekend, but don't blame a company going into the toilet on them spending $60m a year on a program when their income for that same year was almost 70 Billion with a B. That's like saying you weren't able to make your $1000 rent this month because you spent a buck on coffee.

Re:What is the reasoning

[bobstreo]

For having an i7 that has 8 cores but not 16 threads? Is the i9 the new i7?

How many cores do you need for facebook, yahoo mail and netflix? /s

Thank you AMD

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Not a good sign - marketing getting desperate

[lordlod]

The Intel core i9 line has the same architecture and features as the i7 processors.

This is a move to show the market than Intel has something new and innovative to offer. Unfortunately the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.

But will they have Spectre/Meltdown/etc fixes?

[Fencepost]

Are these new chips going to have all the same predictive execution and related issues? Did they have enough time to do any revamping? Or is this going to be the final generation that gets a big chunk of performance improvements crippled?

Re:But will they have Spectre/Meltdown/etc fixes?

[Anubis IV]

Word is that these ones don’t have the fixes. The fixes aren’t coming until Ice Lake, sometime in 2H 2019 according to Intel (or, more realistically, 2020, given that it was originally scheduled to launch two years ago).

Re:Biggest Intel perf bump in years?

[Anubis IV]

The hardware fixes for those flaws apparently won’t be included until Ice Lake. Intel is saying Ice Lake won’t be available in volume until 2H 2019, but it was originally scheduled for 2016, so I’ll believe that when I see it. Realistically, don’t expect those fixes in Intel chips until 2020 or later.

Re:What is the reasoning

[Anonymous Coward]

i9 is just a marketing gimmick, replace the current naming convention with the following and you'll know what you're really getting

i9 = i7
i7 = i5
i5 = i3
i3 = Celeron

Re:What is the reasoning

[drinkypoo]

"What kind function that are you looking for and is missing from 10Pro?"

The ability to disable Microsoft spyware

In essence

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Intel launches SkyLake for the fourth time. Wow.