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AMD's Ryzen Could be Forcing Intel to Release "Coffee Lake" CPUs Sooner

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 22 2017, @10:46PM   
from the dive-into-a-coffee-lake dept.

takyon writes:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/248079-rumor-intel-will-launch-coffee-lake-refresh-new-high-end-desktop-parts-earlier-expected

Over the past six weeks, AMD's Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 CPUs have been making Intel's life a bit difficult. Chipzilla's standard desktop lineup has been rattled by AMD's new chips, which offer higher core counts and better performance in many workloads for significantly less money. Intel, of course, was never going to take this lying down — and new rumors suggest the company will accelerate the launch of its Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X CPUs, pulling them forward to a June Computex unveiling as opposed to the original August timeline. Meanwhile, Intel will reportedly launch its Coffee Lake refresh in August of this year rather than waiting until January 2018.

14nm Coffee Lake will include Intel's first "mainstream" 6-core chip.

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Original Submission

• Finally a AMD processor with cache! (Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:34AM

  by kaszz (4211) on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:34AM (#498196) Journal

  Cache-L3: 16 MB
  Cache-L2: 512 kB (per core)

  Now we are talking!
  Finally AMD has gotten clued on cache memory. Some really big random memory access software needs this badly.
  This will hopefully push the prices down.

  Now if we just could get rid of that Intel Backd^H^HManagement system too.

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