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?
They don't need to play the numbers game that is for clueless consumers.
Wishing for a 16 core cell phone is not the kind of real life improvement i'm going to notice.Look at the last 10 years of cpu releases from intel
There is process improvements
lower power usage
higher IPC
higher Clock speed
The list goes on without just increasing core count so your point kinda goes out the window.