There's no telling if or when Apple's Mac computers will run on Intel's
eighth generation chips.
Not exact matches
There's no detail on the pricing for new laptops that will run on Intel's
eighth generation of U-series
chips, but you can expect that in the next month.
Its most expensive configuration comes in at $ 2,740, netting you a quad - core
eighth -
generation Intel Core i7 - 8650U (a very fast
chip), 16 GB of RAM, a 1 TB PCIe solid - state drive (SSD), and a luscious 14 - inch WQHD + (2,560 x 1,440 or 210 PPI) display with Dolby Vision HDR support.
The new
chips are part of Intel's H - series line of
eighth -
generation chips, designed to be the most powerful processors that the company offers for laptops.
When equipped in one of the first machines to ship with the Ryzen 5 2500U, the HP Envy x360 15, the AMD
chip provides slightly less CPU performance than the Intel
eighth -
generation Core i5 - 8250U processor in Geekbench 4 and Cinebench R15.
With its latest batch of
eighth -
generation Core
chips for laptops, Intel is focused on delivering even more desktop - like performance.
If you're not familiar with Intel's Core i7 - 8750H
chip, it's the newest addition to the company's
eighth -
generation lineup and its first six - core, 12 - thread
chip for laptops.
While Microsoft may have skipped one cycle of processor updates, it hasn't abandoned the Surface Book, and it hasn't skipped the latest «
eighth generation» Kaby Lake - R
chips.
It offers plenty of power for everyday computing tasks, even though it's already out of date now that Intel has released its
eighth -
generation mobile
chips.
It's powered by up to an
eighth -
generation Core i7 processor, or up to an older seventh -
generation Core i5
chip.
There's no discrete graphics
chip, so the 2 - in - 1 relies on Intel's HD or UHD Graphics 620 component integrated into its seventh - and
eighth -
generation processors.
That last feature is the biggest change: 4 GB or 8 GB of LPDDR3 memory clocked at 1,866 MHz for seventh -
generation Intel CPU setups, or 16 GB of LPDDR3 memory clocked at 2,133 MHz for
eighth -
generation chips.
All models support up to an
eighth -
generation Intel Core i7 processor, but you can opt for seventh -
generation chips at a reduced cost.
Specs are also remarkably similar to the standard Notebook 9, with
eighth -
generation Intel Core
chips and up to 16 GB of RAM.
But in the devices announced today, you'll find Intel's newly - announced
eighth -
generation H - series
chips.
The
chip giant says the new
eighth -
generation Core i9
chip is the highest - performance laptop processor it has released to date.
Chip giant's
eighth -
generation Core i9 features six cores and 12 threads and is aimed at content creation and VR.
Updated:
Chip giant's
eighth -
generation Core i9 features six cores and 12 threads, and is aimed at content creation and VR.
Apple's Mac mini line uses the same U-Series
chips that are found in the 13 - inch MacBook Pro, and
eighth -
generation chips appropriate for an updated Mac mini were announced by Intel in August of 2017, with additional
chips introduced in April of 2018.
A new Mac mini would likely include Intel's
eighth -
generation chips, which would bring significant performance improvements to Apple's most affordable desktop.
Unlike those earlier
eighth -
generation chips (part of the U-series of Intel's processors), these new i9, i7, and i5 Coffee Lake
chips are part of the company's H - series lineup (along with Intel's collaboration with AMD on the hybrid Radeon RX Vega M processors with integrated GPUs).
Eighth -
generation H - series
chips haven't been formally announced yet, but Intel has said that those will still be quad - core; however, for the first time, they'll actually include a dedicated GPU made by AMD.
Along with the Core i9 processors, Intel is also announcing i5 and i7 processors for laptops, which will also be based on the company's 14nm + + architecture (known as Coffee Lake) instead of the first wave of the
eighth -
generation Kaby Lake R
chips, which were enhanced versions of the same 14nm + architecture of the seventh -
generation chops.
Along with the new Coffee Lake
chips, Intel is adding support for its Optane memory to both the
eighth -
generation mobile and desktop
chips, which should help increase overall speeds compared to more traditional memory systems.
According to Tech Report, a number of online retailers have posted product pages for upcoming
eighth -
generation Core i3, i5, and i7
chips in addition to lower - end Celeron and Pentium
chips.
The most dominant processor
chips come from Intel, which launched its
eighth -
generation Core (code - named «Coffee Lake») mobile processors in April.
But that small size doesn't mean Project Spark is short in performance, as it's capable of packing up to an
eighth -
generation Intel Core i7 processor, up to a GeForce GTX 1080 discrete
chip, and up to four storage drives.
The unit I've been testing has all of those same specs, save for an
eighth -
generation Core i7
chip, which bumps the price up to $ 1,299.
Intel may be preparing to announce its upcoming
eighth -
generation processors on August 21st, but the company is already looking to the future with an uncharacteristically early announcement of what seems to be its ninth -
generation Ice Lake
chips, as reported by AnandTech.
In addition to addressing security issues in sixth -
generation CPUs, Intel newest update also attacks Meltdown and Spectre on seventh -
generation (Kaby Lake) and
eighth -
generation (Coffee Lake)
chips.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said on Thursday, March 15 that the first processors to see hardware changes that address the Meltdown and Spectre flaws will be the company's next -
generation «Cascade Lake» Xeon Scalable
chips for the server market, and
eighth -
generation Core processors shipping to the mainstream market in the second half of 2018.
To date, updates addressing Meltdown and Spectre are available for all Intel processors ranging from its second -
generation «Sandy Bridge» CPUs to its recent
eighth -
generation «Coffee Lake»
chips.
It has Nvidia's GeForce MX150 graphics and an Intel Core i5 or i7
eighth -
generation processor, a powerful quad - core
chip that will give you decent general - computing performance and great entry - level gaming ability too.
All smaller laptops, and many 15 - inch devices use the U-series, which is Intel's low power processors; it's worth noting that the
eighth -
generation U-series
chips are quad - core, but they'll still be lower powered.
It has a 12.3 - inch touchscreen display with a 3:2 aspect ratio, a seventh -
generation Intel Core processor (sadly, there isn't upgrade to
eighth -
generation chips, despite the long wait for the LTE model to arrive), and it weighs less than two pounds (without a keyboard attached).
The new laptop contains the same processor options as that one, which is Intel's
eighth -
generation U-series
chips.
It also includes Intel's
eighth -
generation «Kaby Lake R»
chips, but it goes up to a Core i7.
Most of what you'll find here is based on Intel's first wave of
eighth -
generation processors released towards the back end of 2017, and not the
chips released in the beginning of April.