8th generation coffee lake laptops intel core processors launched

After many rumors and a lot of waiting, Intel has officially announced the launch of its new eighth generation Core processors, better known as Coffee Lake and that are loaded with news to mark a before and after that you have not seen for many years on the blue side.

Intel Coffee Lake officially announced

The first Intel Coffee Lake processors that arrive are the very low voltage versions, that is, the -U models and that are intended to give life to Ultrabooks and all kinds of very compact equipment. The rest of the Coffee Lake family products will arrive in the fall and / or early 2018.

The first processors are the Core i7-8650U, i7-8550U, i5-8350U and i5-8250U models, all of which stand out for the inclusion of four physical cores to offer a breakthrough in performance compared to previous generations, since until now all -U processors had a maximum of two physical cores. Thanks to the additional cores and the multiple improvements introduced in the architecture, the new processors offer an improvement of up to 40% compared to the previous generation.

Intel continues to bet strongly on the multimedia section in its processors and the Coffee Lake are no exception, this new generation of chips includes a dedicated engine that will allow you to create, edit and share content in 4K resolution and 360º content in a much better way. easier. Video rendering at demanding 4K resolution has also been reinforced with a new generation of Intel Quick Sync that enables you to work at full speed.

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Also with entertainment in mind, energy efficiency has been taken to a new level so that these new Coffee Lake processors offer you up to 10 hours of autonomy with a single charge, they also offer the possibility of connecting up to three 4K displays to a single Intel engine. HD Graphics.

The following table collects all the details of the new Coffee Lake-U processors:

What do you think of this new release? Is it what you expected in the eighth generation notebooks? What is clear, that finally, we will buy the U i5 and i7 with a performance difference from the Intel Core i3 -U.