Coffee Lake processors

Coffee Lake (8th Gen)

— 8th generation Intel chips built on the Coffee Lake microarchitecture. It is the successor to Kaby Lake, released in the fall of 2017. As in previous generations, the manufacturer had to move away from the “tick-tock” policy — as a result, this architecture uses the same 14-nm process technology as its predecessors. CPUs of the Core i7 and i5 series from this generation received 6 cores each, Core i3 — four cores without multithreading support (for the first time in the history of this line). It is also worth noting that Coffee Lake chips use a modified version of the LGA 1151 socket, which is why they are not electrically compatible with the original LGA 1151 (although they are physically compatible).