Well, we know it's coming, it's more a question of when? Intel has been working on a Coffee lake based 8-cores and a 16-threads processor for ages now. Yet still hasn't released it. Some had hoped it would be released during Computex, but that was a no-go. However, an 8c/16t processor entry surfaced in the SiSoft Sandra database.
The 8-core part, as we've discussed many times already, would be a mainstream level processor coming from the Coffee Lake generation products, and yes that means it includes free Spectre and meltdown vulnerabilities as the architecture did not change. Reports still indicate that this processor will need a new Z390 chipset based motherboard for more enthusiast things, but would work on all current-gen 300-series motherboards as well. The 8C/16T CF-S CPU now has been spotted in the SiSoft Sandra database as well, clearly denoted as Coffee lake part. It's an engineering sample that is purring at a rather low 2.60 GHz base clock, but here I like to add .. engineering sample one more time. Obviously, the part will be able to go much faster on base and inevitably the turbo frequency bins.
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