Details of Intel Core i7 hexacores for laptops appear online

Details have surfaced about the upcoming Core i7 hexacores for laptops. Photos on a Chinese forum show screenshots with data from an engineering sample and a CPU comparison site claims to have details of a ‘Core i7-8700HQ’.

Photos have appeared on the Chinese website Tieba that show CPU details of a hexacore with a TDP of 45 watts. This is an engineering sample and the name of the processor is therefore not visible. The forum users are talking about the i7-8720HK, but it is not clear whether that will actually be the name of the chip. The chip with 9MB cache runs at 2.4GHz and appears to have a boost of 3.6GHz. Because it is an engineering sample, the speeds are probably not definitive.

Processor comparison site cpu-monkey shows a Core i7-8700HQ and compares it to the Core i7-7700HQ that is in many current laptops. At the end of November, a long list of names of Coffee Lake-H processors for laptops appeared. It was put online by a forum user at AnandTech, and many of the model names reappeared in a build of Aida64. A Core i7-8700HQ is not on the list with that name, so Intel may give the processor a different name.

*Processor name and specifications not confirmed