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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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#5493942 Posted on: 11/20/2017 08:59 AM
Doubt the quality will be the same.
There is a reason why none of the german car makers are importing the cars (made in china) to germany,
even that labor is a large portion of the cost (to make a car).
Doubt the quality will be the same.
There is a reason why none of the german car makers are importing the cars (made in china) to germany,
even that labor is a large portion of the cost (to make a car).
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#5493947 Posted on: 11/20/2017 09:07 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.
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.
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#5494043 Posted on: 11/20/2017 02:30 PM
It's way Intel can go about tax minimisation as well as selling the processors into their local market.
It's way Intel can go about tax minimisation as well as selling the processors into their local market.
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#5494046 Posted on: 11/20/2017 02:35 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?
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?
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It's poor, because like most of Intels Products, when they are running behind (in this case AMD) they rush out paper launches.
Throughout Intels history, this is common practice. Anyone remember the 1Ghz Pentium?
Anyway, my thoughts, poor yields at the factory and extremely limited production, just to say, we have this.. look... we are honest people!