“Intel Coffee Lake Refresh processors with eight cores will appear later this year”

In the second half of this year, Intel will reportedly release Coffee Lake Refresh processors with up to eight cores. Next year, the Comet Lake generation for ultrabooks, also produced at 14nm, would appear, in which Thunderbolt 3 is integrated.

In early June, Intel announced that this year frugal Whiskey Lake U and Amber Lake Y processors for laptops, based on the 14nm++ process, will be released, but according to the usually well-informed PC Watch, it will arrive in the second half of the year. another 14nm generation. This would be codenamed Coffee Lake Refresh and consist of processors with up to eight cores. The current Coffee Lake generation of chips has a maximum of six cores. The processors coming this year would be chips in the S-line for desktop PCs, next year there would also be Coffee Lake Refresh chips with eight cores in the H-line for gaming notebooks.

Next year, a new, economical, 14nm++ based chip generation for laptops would also follow: Comet Lake. These are chips with up to four cores, which are produced at 14nm++ and which may be combined with the Platform Controller Hub that was intended for Ice Lake. That would mean that laptops with Comet Lake may have Thunderbolt 3 controllers as standard. According to PC Watch, that controller is part of the ICL-PCH.

As for the Ice Lake generation of chips, the Japanese site reports that there are rumors that Intel wants to produce these without GPU. The reason would be the production issues related to the 10nm node. Intel’s first 10nm processor, the Core i3-8121U, would already have no GPU because of these problems. PC Watch suggests that the Ice Lake processors will consist of a CPU with a separate GPU on a single substrate, just like Kaby Lake-G with its AMD Vega GPU. The question then is which GPU Intel will use. If the company wants to use its own separate GPU under development, that would mean that Ice Lake will only appear in 2020.