Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby Lake Refresh

Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by Zekio on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:25AM (#15063708)

Wait isn't 7th gen already essentially a refresh of 6th gen?

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Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by Synaesthesia on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:35AM (#15063766)

Yeah Intel are not following the tick-tock pattern anymore, they are having more revisions on the same node, and some of the revisions are more slight. Anandtech had an article on it a while back.

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Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by stephens_chris on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:59PM (#15067818)

Correct. About a year and a half ago, Intel announced they were ditching tick-tock for a three step model of process-architecture-optimization.

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Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by vladimir-y on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:30PM (#15066564)

Sure, but this time AMD made Intel to show a real progress with 8 cores ULV CPU (yes to show, as I guess Intel had it ready-made, but was not going to present it for the time being). Before this year Intel didn't have to show the real progress as there was almost monopoly on the CPU market.

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Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by vladimir-y on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:43PM (#15068086)

> with 8 cores ULV CPU

4 cores obviously

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