A super-fast Intel Core i7 CPU for the 40 years of the 8086 CPU

On a Chinese forum appeared the image of a new Intel CPU of the Core i7 family, based on the Coffee Lake architecture and that the name would be developed by the company to celebrate the 40 years since the debut of the first processor of the 8086 family.

Let’s talk about the Core i7-8086K CPU, a model that should be proposed in a special series and for which the technical characteristics indicated to make us wait for a reference performance level. Without prejudice to the 95 Watt TDP common to the Core i7-8700K processor, the new model would combine the 6-core architecture with a 4 GHz clock base frequency against 3.7 GHz of the fastest Coffee Lake CPU now on the market.

Not only that: the clock boost frequency would also be significantly increased from 4.7 GHz Core i7-8700K CPU to a value assumed in 5 GHz. To obtain a performance of this type it is clear that Intel should select the dies of Coffee processors Lake better than yield, so as to allow to operate such high clock frequencies keeping the TDP within the 95 Watt threshold.

The unchanged consumption would also allow to use the same motherboards now on the market, compatible with other Intel Core eighth generation CPUs, even with this specific processor. It remains obviously to understand what may be the price of a CPU of this type and when it will be made available on the market: it is assumed the month of June, coinciding with the anniversary of 40 years since the debut of Intel’s first 8086 CPU.

For now, there are no official confirmations from Intel, but certainly this is a possible eventuality that Intel has already traveled in the past with the Pentium G3258 processor: in that case, it was a specially developed version to celebrate the 20 years of the Pentium brand.