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Intel Coffee Lake (8th-gen Core desktop chips) now available for $117 and up

Intel’s 8th-gen Core processors are available starting today. Code-named “Coffee Lake,” the new chips that were introduced last month offer better up to 25 percent better all-around performance than their 7th-gen “Kaby Lake” predecessors. The new mainstream desktop chips also include the first quad-core Core i3 desktop processor and the first hexa-core Core i5 desktop […]

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Intel’s 8th-gen Core chips for laptops have twice as many cores, up to 40 percent better performance

Intel’s first 8th-gen Core processors are set to hit the streets in September, and for this launch, Intel is taking aim at notebooks. The new Intel Core i5-8250U, Core i5-8350U, Core i7-8550U and Core i7-8650U chips are 15 watt, quad-core processors with support for hyperthreading. So while they’re manufactured using the same 14nm+ process as […]