Intel Announces Latest 9th Generation Chips, Including Its "Best Game Processor" Core i9

The new generation of Intel desktop processors has arrived with the company 's new 9th generation processors, which have just been announced today at the company' s hardware event in New York. l & # 39; fall.

To this end, the company is launching new chips, including the new Core i9-9900K, which, according to Intel, is "the best game processor in the world. Period. "The i9-9900K offers eight cores and 16 threads, clocked at the base frequency of 3.6 GHz, which can be amplified up to 5.0 GHz.

In addition to the new Core i9 processor, Intel is also announcing the new Core i5 and Core i7 9th generation models: the i7-9700K with eight cores and eight threads, as well as a base clock frequency of 3 6 GHz (can be increased to 4.9 GHz); and the i5-9600K, which offers six cores and six threads at a base rate of 3.7 GHz (which can be boosted to 4.6 GHz).

Although Intel is ahead of its 9th generation name, the new chips are still based on Intel's existing 14nm process, which the company has been using since the 5th generation Broadwell chips in 2014. The chips 9th generation specifically use the Intel 14nm processor. The process it put in place last year with its 8th generation chips from Coffee Lake, Intel continues to delay the production of its truly new generation 10nm Cannon Lake chips until 2019.

Pre-orders for the 9th generation chips are open today. Processors should switch to the chip on October 19th. The price of chips is much smaller than that of Intel's more expensive Core X: the Core i9-9900K will cost $ 488, the i7-9700K will cost $ 373 and the i5-9600K will cost you $ 262.

But Intel does not forget its end users either: the company also announced an updated range of its Core X-Series processors (announced for the first time in 2017), with the new Core i7 X-Series, Core i9 X-Series and Core i9 Extreme Processors. And like the first generation of OCore i9 Extreme, the new model offers 218 cores and 36 threads, making it the top of the mainstream consumer lineup.

And, for business users who need more firepower, Intel has announced a new Intel Xeon W-3175X 28-core processor, unblocked at 4.3 GHz and expected to ship later this year in December. No price has been announced yet, but it will probably not be cheap when it is in stores.

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