And here are the first pictures of the retail boxes of 8th generation Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors. The first wave of processors based on Intel’s new 14 nm “Coffee Lake” silicon will be 6-core parts in the Core i5 and Core i7 brands, which will be launched on 22 August; with Core i3 following on much later in the year.
The boxes confirm several things about these chips, beginning with the fact that their integrated graphics cores will be branded “Intel UHD Graphics 6xx,” and that they will require motherboards based on Intel 300-series chipset, even though their socket is “LGA1151.”
There doesn’t appear to be a socket key difference between these processors and “Kaby Lake,” so it’s possible that while 300-series chipset motherboards support older “Kaby Lake” and “Skylake” processors, “Coffee Lake” will only work on 300-series chipset, and not older 200-series or 100-series. Intel making the bold move of branding its new integrated graphics “UHD” could hint at its credentials with hardware-accelerated decoding of new video formats such as 10-bit VP9 at 4K without breaking a sweat; and new display connector standards such as HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.4. The various models that make up the first wave of 8th generation Core i5 and Core i7 desktop processors, are tabled below.
