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- Aug 31, 201790% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Intel Rumored to Debut Basin Falls Platform in May, Launch Coffee Lake Chips in August
- Per a DigiTimes rumor relayed on 20 April 2017, Intel planned to move its 14nm Coffee Lake chips up to August 2017 from January 2018, citing increasing competition from AMD's Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5[1]
- Basin Falls could be used in future Mac Pro machines and a rumored server-grade iMac; Coffee Lake chips suited to Apple had been expected around Q2 2018[1]
- All of this is rumor; the DigiTimes original is paywalled and only its headline was retrievable[1][4]
- In the event, Intel announced Coffee Lake as its eighth-generation Core family on 25 September 2017 and launched the first desktop chips on 5 October 2017[2]
Notable features
- The first Coffee Lake wave was to be several K-series Core i3, i5 and i7 chips with Z370 chipsets, with more CPUs at the end of 2017 or early 2018[1]
- The Basin Falls platform (Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X) was to be unveiled at Computex 2017 (30 May to 3 June), two months early; Skylake-X is 140W with 6, 8 and 10 cores, Kaby Lake-X is a 112W quad-core, and a 12-core Skylake-X was planned for August[1]
- Coffee Lake, made on Intel's second 14nm refinement (14nm++), brought six cores to mainstream desktop Core i5 and i7 chips (hyper-threaded on the i7) and four cores to the Core i3, the first core-count change in the ten-year history of Intel Core CPUs[2]
- The launch flagship Core i7-8700K has six cores and 12 threads, 12MB of cache, a 3.7GHz base and 4.7GHz turbo clock and a 95W TDP, at $359[2]
- It requires 300-series chipsets: the LGA 1151 socket is physically the same as Skylake and Kaby Lake but electrically incompatible with those older boards[2]
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- [1]90%macrumors.com/2017/04/20/intel-basin-falls-may-coffee-lake-augustmacrumors.com· Posted Jun 21, 2017· Starts Aug 31, 2017 ✓· 0% of score
Happened as dated, per macrumors.com: "…ps in August Intel plans to move up the launch of its 14-nanometer Coffee Lake processors, introduci…"
- [2]78%Coffee Lake - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 22, 2026· 100% of score
Wikipedia's Coffee Lake article gives the 25 September 2017 announcement and 5 October 2017 launch, the 14nm++ process, six-core i5/i7 and four-core i3 desktop parts, the i7-8700K's clocks and $359 price, and 300-series chipset requirement.
- [3]72%Intel to Accelerate Basin Falls Unveil, Coffee Lake Launchtechpowerup.com· Published Apr 19, 2017· 0% of score
TechPowerUp's own headline, published 19 April 2017, reports Intel accelerating the Basin Falls unveiling and moving up the Coffee Lake launch - consistent with the pin's claim of an accelerated August 2017 Coffee Lake debut - though the article's full text sat behind a subscription wall and could not be retrieved to confirm further detail.
- [4]72%Intel to unveil Basin Falls, launch Coffee Lake ahead of scheduledigitimes.com· Published Apr 19, 2017· 0% of score
DigiTimes' own headline and 19 April 2017 publish date - the original source reflected in the pin's own sourceUrl - report Intel unveiling Basin Falls and moving up the Coffee Lake launch ahead of schedule, consistent with the pin's claim, though the article itself is paywalled and could not be verified directly.
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