Tuesday, August 8th 2017
Intel to Debut 8th Generation Core Family on August 21
On Aug. 21, Intel will unveil the 8th Generation Intel Core processor family on Facebook Live. Watch as two exciting moments align: the Great American Solar Eclipse and the unveiling of Intel's most powerful family of processors for the next era of computing. Hear from those who are at the center of creating this technology and from creators who are using the power of 8th Gen Intel Core technology in new and exciting ways.
Eight Reasons to Tune In
1. Don't be caught in the dark. Learn how the 8th Gen Intel Core processor family will offer blazing fast performance.
2. Hear directly from Gregory Bryant, senior vice president of the Client Computing Group at Intel, and others about the details on the latest processor family and what it can help you do.
3. Discover how immersive experiences will bring you from spectator to participant with 8th Gen Intel Core processor capabilities.
4. Don't just take our word for it. See the power of 8th Gen Intel Core technology come to life in the hands of a VR creator and imaging technologist.
5. Get a sneak peek at some of the amazing system designs based on 8th Gen Intel Core processors.
6. Start planning for what new 8th Gen Intel Core processor-based device to purchase in the holiday season and even before.
7. Don't worry, you won't miss the solar eclipse. Tune in before it descends upon Oregon and the West Coast and then makes its way across the U.S.
8. See how the 8th Gen Intel Core processor is designed for today and what comes next.
Watch the live-stream on 8 a.m. PDT, Aug. 21, 2017, here.
1. Don't be caught in the dark. Learn how the 8th Gen Intel Core processor family will offer blazing fast performance.
2. Hear directly from Gregory Bryant, senior vice president of the Client Computing Group at Intel, and others about the details on the latest processor family and what it can help you do.
3. Discover how immersive experiences will bring you from spectator to participant with 8th Gen Intel Core processor capabilities.
4. Don't just take our word for it. See the power of 8th Gen Intel Core technology come to life in the hands of a VR creator and imaging technologist.
5. Get a sneak peek at some of the amazing system designs based on 8th Gen Intel Core processors.
6. Start planning for what new 8th Gen Intel Core processor-based device to purchase in the holiday season and even before.
7. Don't worry, you won't miss the solar eclipse. Tune in before it descends upon Oregon and the West Coast and then makes its way across the U.S.
8. See how the 8th Gen Intel Core processor is designed for today and what comes next.
Watch the live-stream on 8 a.m. PDT, Aug. 21, 2017, here.
124 Comments on Intel to Debut 8th Generation Core Family on August 21
By this token there should be no progress at all.
By the same token companies should never release new slightly better products within 24 months after release.
By the same token people who strive for the highest performance, no matter the cost, are utter idiots (e.g. all those who have bought NVIDIA's Titans/Ti's or Intel's HEDT CPUs).
It's getting utterly ridiculous. Every news where Intel or NVIDIA gets mentioned turns into some holy war against these companies even when they release decent products at decent prices.
Could we please stop with that and instead discuss the actual products without this frantic fanboyism?
This final paragraph will probably draw a lot of flak but I'm gonna utter it anyways. Last but not least anyone who has replaced their working Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge/Haswell/SkyLake systems with equivalent (the same core/threads count) Kaby Lake CPUs is indeed an idiot unless the said person absolutely couldn't live without new platform features (NVMe/M.2/USB-C/etc.).
I wish Kaby Lake never existed.
Happy now?
Why did you omit the linkto the official press release?
Let's see if they can beat Broadwell after 2.5 years!!!
Skylake(arch 14nm)->Kaby(optimizations 14nm) ->Coffee Lake(Even more optimizations 14nm)->Cannon lake(Die shrinked coffee 10nm)->Icelake(New arch 10nm)
Let's be forward here, the only Kaby Lake CPU that's worth it is the 7700k if you plan on overclocking it, to only play games, and only expect to get the best performance for a short period. In every other scenario, the 1700, 1700x, or 1800x is simply the better choice. If you already have a 2000 series Intel processor or better there is little reason to upgrade to kaby if you aren't increasing your core count.
"By the same token companies should never release new slightly better products within 24 months after release."
I believe Nvidia has released "the most powerful card in the world" within months of each other. It takes 9 months to tape out a card so they knew they had a more powerful card multiple time yet charged flagship price for each one. 1080 > Titan Xp > 1080 Ti. 980 > 980 Ti. The 980 Ti was the quickest drop, coming in within a month of the 980's release.
"By the same token people who strive for the highest performance, no matter the cost, are utter idiots (e.g. all those who have bought NVIDIA's Titans/Ti's or Intel's HEDT CPUs)."
I would say refer to the point above, where Nvidia and Intel are actually keeping their top end products from the customer. So in reality, to keep biting the carrot and buying the "fastest card or CPU" is quite dumb indeed because it's not really the fastest.
But yeah Broadwell was a different one, 65W tdp and iris pro igpus. Which makes me wonder will cannonlake be like that and Icelake is coming faster than it was first scheduled.
The Kaby lake X crowd might get shafted though... basically anything that isnt a 7900x+ is about to be obsolete.
Also companies exist to extract profits from you, not to be your friend or benefactor.
It always looks like every AMD fan would love to live in communism yet I am sure as hell most, if not all of you will completely oppose this idea when given a choice.
Idk, maybe if I'd be a professional gamer and had an extra PC only just for gaming and nothing else, Intel would be a good fit. But anybody else who even just has Chrome open besides their game, would be much better off with AMD.
3XX series just seems to be re-badged 2XX series, but marks the introduction of the Xeon lineup into the mainstream branding.
Whats next, you wanna start hanging people for using Intel cpu's? Should i be worried for wanting an i7 7820x?
BTW you couldn't PAY me to use AMD products ever again after getting screwed over TWICE by AMD products.