Monday, April 16th 2018
Intel Rumored to Commemorate 40th Anniversary of the 8086 with a Special Core i7 SKU?
Intel recently celebrated 20 years of the Pentium brand that made the company a household name, with a special Pentium 20th Anniversary Edition G3258 SKU. If rumors are to be believed, the company could do something similar with the upcoming 40th anniversary of its 8086 processor, the distant ancestor of today's x86 architecture. Some sources even suggest that the company could take advantage of its 8th generation Core product cycle to launch a "Core i7-8086K" SKU.
Pictures surfaced on social media of the said "i7-8086K" SKU in the flesh, complete with a part number "SR3QQ." Based on the same 14 nm "Coffee Lake" silicon as the i7-8700K, this chip has a nominal clock speed of 4.00 GHz, a maximum Turbo Boost frequency above 5.00 GHz, an unlocked multiplier, and 12 MB of shared L3 cache. Intel could choose June 8th (around the 2018 Computex and the actual anniversary of 8086), to launch the new SKU.
Source:
WCCFTech
Pictures surfaced on social media of the said "i7-8086K" SKU in the flesh, complete with a part number "SR3QQ." Based on the same 14 nm "Coffee Lake" silicon as the i7-8700K, this chip has a nominal clock speed of 4.00 GHz, a maximum Turbo Boost frequency above 5.00 GHz, an unlocked multiplier, and 12 MB of shared L3 cache. Intel could choose June 8th (around the 2018 Computex and the actual anniversary of 8086), to launch the new SKU.
30 Comments on Intel Rumored to Commemorate 40th Anniversary of the 8086 with a Special Core i7 SKU?
But seeing the temperatures in that screenshot, doesn't look like that will be the case.
So next year we're having the 8088K? :D
8700K is already a good product and if silicone lottery exists it should be a good market for pre binned cpu's ?
I see nothing wrong :)
www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/fx-9590
If they price it similarly as G3258 were against other pentiums, there won't be price premium on it.
Nvidia needs to do it for g92 that's the reason they still exist.
Intel Readies a 5.1 GHz Xeon Chip Based on the "Broadwell" Architecture
Let's just wait and see if they release this (pointless) product.
Don't be one of those people just obessed with specs and big numbers like the Andriod phone crowd.