Intel Z390 chipset adds support for eight-core, sixteen-threaded CPUs in 2H 2018

Posted on Saturday, September 16 2017 @ 21:35 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Desktop replacement laptop maker Eurocom accidentally leaked details about Intel's 2018 roadmap. We know Intel will launch its Z370 chipset and the Coffee Lake-S processors on October 5 but recent leaks indicated the chip giant is also working on a mysterious Z390 chipset.

A post from Eurocom reveals this future Z390 chipset will deliver support for Intel's eight-core, sixteen-threaded processors. So next month six-core processors will enter Intel's mainstream lineup and sometime in the second half of 2018 you can expect two more cores added to the mix.

This eight-core chip from Intel will compete directly with AMD's currently available eight-core Ryzen 7 processors. Not a lot is known about these eight-core processors from Intel, it could be they're based on the 10nm Ice Lake architecture.

Anyway, the days of quad-core chips ruling the high-end market are quickly fading.

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