Intel confirms the arrival of Core i7 quad-cores of 15W

Intel confirms it will release Core i7s with four cores and support for HyperThreading that have a TDP of 15W. The chips of the eighth Core generation would perform 30 percent better than the current 15W Kaby Lake dual cores.

Intel made the claim of more than 30 percent performance improvement during its keynote address at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The company compared the current seventh generation with the upcoming eighth generation of Core processors. The claim is striking because Intel predicted a performance gain of 15 percent at the beginning of this year.

The fine print accompanying the announcement states that it concerns performance measurements of Sysmark 2014 v1.5. In the comparison, a Core i7-7500U of the Kaby Lake generation was used, a dualcore with HyperThreading, a turbo to 3.5GHz and a TDP of 15W. The unnamed eighth-generation Core i7 is a quad-core with HyperThreading, a TDP of also 15W and a turbo up to 4GHz. In the system with Core i7-7500U, Intel used 8GB ddr4-2133, for the system with a new processor it was 8GB ddr4-2400.

At the end of last year there were rumors about the arrival of economical quad-cores for laptops. This would be partly Kaby Lake Refresh and partly Coffee Lake U quadcores. Those would appear in August, was the message at the time.