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Intel To Increase Coffee Lake production - Uses New Fab
Coffee Lake processor availability has been poor, even now weeks after its launch. As to why it is so poor, Intel doesn't shed a word. However, they will increase Coffee lake production by using a newly opened fab. Starting December 15th the volume availability would be better.
The Core i7-8700K, i7-8700, i5-8600K and i5-8400 will then be produced at the Chinese Chengdu. Intel issued a product change notification in which it states that fact. Intel states there will be no differences between the CPUs in terms of quality.
Coffee Lake has been launched back in August, the first consumer mainstream parts with up to 6 cores have been an answer towards AMD A Ryzen series 5 and 6 processors. Check out our Coffee Lake 8700k review here and our 8600k review here.
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#5494089 Posted on: 11/20/2017 04:33 PM
If this brought down prices of their unlocked processors then I'm all for it, but I don't see that happening. For the i3, it's a $60 premium to have an unlocked processor. For the i5, it's a $100 premium to have an unlocked processor. That's just beyond greedy. I'm not trying to turn this into an AMD vs Intel discussion, but you can get an unlocked Ryzen and have the advantage of having an unlocked processor.
Don't know if it's the case but I heard if you have a locked Coffee Lake cpu you can't set a higher memory frequency even an XMP profile for your memory?
this may seem a bit unwieldy as an analogy, but i think it's apt -
Intel is taking an Airbus A380 strategy (clock speeds thus equivalent to passenger load - one giant hammer) while AMD is taking the Boeing Dreamliner strategy ( able to use regional airports, modular construction - lots of smaller hammers)...
right now Boeing has won the argument, it remains to be seen about AMD.
If this brought down prices of their unlocked processors then I'm all for it, but I don't see that happening. For the i3, it's a $60 premium to have an unlocked processor. For the i5, it's a $100 premium to have an unlocked processor. That's just beyond greedy. I'm not trying to turn this into an AMD vs Intel discussion, but you can get an unlocked Ryzen and have the advantage of having an unlocked processor.
Don't know if it's the case but I heard if you have a locked Coffee Lake cpu you can't set a higher memory frequency even an XMP profile for your memory?
this may seem a bit unwieldy as an analogy, but i think it's apt -
Intel is taking an Airbus A380 strategy (clock speeds thus equivalent to passenger load - one giant hammer) while AMD is taking the Boeing Dreamliner strategy ( able to use regional airports, modular construction - lots of smaller hammers)...
right now Boeing has won the argument, it remains to be seen about AMD.
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#5494232 Posted on: 11/21/2017 02:30 AM
Even Trump couldn't stop the giant Intel from moving production to China.
I have no idea what might be the human factor in manufacturing CPUs. If there are only a few humans needed to assure the quality, then there's no real reason why the quality would be different. If they pay a big enough salary, they can get the well-educated, talented Chinese engineers who are no worse than anywhere else in the world. But if it takes a lot of people and Intel is only planning to save money by paying low wages (it's a financial corporation, not a technology corporation, after all), it could be an entirely different story.
Its not that simple, you dont build FABs overnight, it takes years
Even Trump couldn't stop the giant Intel from moving production to China.
I have no idea what might be the human factor in manufacturing CPUs. If there are only a few humans needed to assure the quality, then there's no real reason why the quality would be different. If they pay a big enough salary, they can get the well-educated, talented Chinese engineers who are no worse than anywhere else in the world. But if it takes a lot of people and Intel is only planning to save money by paying low wages (it's a financial corporation, not a technology corporation, after all), it could be an entirely different story.
Its not that simple, you dont build FABs overnight, it takes years
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#5494252 Posted on: 11/21/2017 04:53 AM
yearS? doubt that. maybe one, and even if, china can throw ten times more ppl at it which will speed up the whole process a lot.
yearS? doubt that. maybe one, and even if, china can throw ten times more ppl at it which will speed up the whole process a lot.
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#5494265 Posted on: 11/21/2017 07:24 AM
finally out of pre-production I see, hopefully these new chips will oc even better than the earlier samples
finally out of pre-production I see, hopefully these new chips will oc even better than the earlier samples
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Only reason to limit the memory speed in such a fashion is the same reason why they bin the locked and unlocked processors.