Intel introduced the Core i9 processor at last year's Taipei Computer Show. It belongs to the Skylake-X family. The interface is LGA2066.
This year, i9-8950HK as a 6-core standard pressure processor into the high-end gaming.
With the 10nm CPU skipping ticket and AMD Ruilong becoming increasingly sophisticated, Core i9 seems to take on a new mission.
According to WCCFTech, Intel will launch the Z390 motherboard in the second half of the year. The motherboard will initially support three desktop processors, i9-9900K, i7-9700K (6C12T) and i5-9600K (6C6T).
among them, i9-9900K is the long-rumored 8-core 16-thread mainstream CPU , This means that Intel wants to pull down its position from Core X enthusiasts to fight against AMD's second-generation Ruilong.
However, there are some things that are hard to understand. For example, the Z390 is still the LGA 1151 interface, so the new Core i9 is definitely redesigned In addition, whether LGA1151 can suppress the 8-core is also suspicious.
From the naming point of view, the 9000 series is theoretically a 9-generation Core, so the codename will be Whiskey Lake or the earliest IceLake may need Intel's confirmation.
According to the latest news from Benchlife last weekend, Z390 chipset can even be directly regarded as the renamed Z370, still 22nm lithography process , just added the missing features of Z370, 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0 and native USB 3.1 Gen2.
Since there is no other source of evidence for the time being, let's let the bullets fly for a while.
