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There are two news about Intel: another leak about the 6-core mainstream parts and someone rather important that is leaving the company:

 

Intel Coffee Lake Core i7-8700K Flagship 6 Core Specifications Leaked – 4.3 GHz Single Core Boost, 4.0 GHz Six Core Boost, 95W TDP, Supported on LGA 1151 Socket, Two More 6 Core SKUs Detailed
http://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-core-i7-8700k-6-core-cpu-specifications-details-leak/
So for the details, the first processor is the Core i7-8700K. This chip has 6 cores and 12 threads. The chip is clocked at a base frequency of 3.7 GHz and has a minimum core frequency set at 0.8 GHz which is for idle mode. The chip features a boost clock of 4.3 GHz on a single core, 4.2 GHz in dual core mode while quad and hexa core boost clocks are rated at 4.0 GHz which is impressive. The CPU has a BCLK frequency of 100 MHz which is expected from Intel CPUs. The chip features an unlocked multiplier as suggested by the “IA (Intel Architecture) Overclock Capable” panel.

The chip has dual channel memory support with native speeds of 2400 MHz. There’s a total of 12 MB of smart cache on the processor, referring to the total L3 cache. The chip will be shipping with Intel’s GT2 level graphics core with a minimum clock speed of 350 MHz. The interesting thing is that the chip packs a 95W TDP and is compatible with the LGA 1151 socket which means that Intel may allow Coffee Lake support on 200-series and even 100-series motherboards although there will be a new chipset known as Z390 launching alongside the chips.

The other two processors are very interesting too. There’s another 95W chip that features clock speeds of 3.2 GHz base, 3.6 GHz (single core / dual core) boost and 3.4 GHz (quad core and hexa core) boost. This chip also supports overclocking but the clock speeds are rather lower for it to be a Core i5 K-Series chip. The other is a 65W part so we can take a guess that this is a T-Series, low TDP chip that comes with clock speeds of 3.1 GHz base but higher boost speeds of 4.2 GHz (single core), 4.1 GHz (dual core) and 3.9 GHz (quad and hexa core) boost clocks. Remaining specifications of the chips are rather similar.

 

CPU Name	Intel Core i5-7600K	Intel Core i5-8400	Intel Core i5-8600K	Intel Core i7-7700K	Intel Core i7-8700	Intel Core i7-8700K
CPU Family	Kaby Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S	Kaby Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S
CPU Process	14nm	14nm	14nm	14nm	14nm	14nm
CPU Cores	4	6	6	4	6	6
CPU Threads	4	6	6	8	12	12
Base Clock	3.8 GHz	2.8 GHz	3.50 GHz	4.2 GHz	3.2 GHz	3.7 GHz
Boost Clock	4.2 GHz	TBA	TBA	4.5 GHz	TBA	4.3 GHz
L2 Cache	1 MB (256 KB per Core)	1.5 MB (256 KB per Core)	1.5 MB (256 KB per Core)	1 MB (256 KB per Core)	1.5 MB (256 KB per Core)	1.5 MB (256 KB per Core)
L3 Cache	6 MB	9 MB	9 MB	8 MB	12 MB	12 MB
Overclocking Support	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Socket Support	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151
PCH	200-Series	300-Series	300-Series	200-Series	300-Series	300-Series
TDP	91W	65W	95W	91W	TBA	95W

 

 

François Piednoël Quits Intel
https://www.techpowerup.com/235385/francois-piednoel-quits-intel
Who is François Piednoël, you ask? Why, just the principal engineer at Intel for nearly 20 years now. He has been involved in the architecture development of CPUs, including Katmai, Conroe, Penryn, and Nehalem as well as SoCs in Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake. Oh, and did I mention he was also strongly involved in the Intel Atom processor line and the massive shift in Intel's microarchitecture from Pentium 4 to Core? He has also supported development of CPUz, Intel Hyperthreading, and the Android x86 platform.