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Intel is expected to launch its 8th generation of CPUs in just a couple of days, but early adopters might have to wait longer than the leaked October 5th launch date. Intel is predicted to experience a shortage of Coffee Lake processors, resulting in scarce availability all around.
The decision to launch Coffee Lake so soon after last year’s Kaby Lake was one that confused many. It is more than likely that Intel made the choice in light of AMD’s newly launched Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs, attempting to claw back its throne from the first solid competition offered in years.
Reports from SweClockers’ sources, however, states that there is almost a complete lack of Intel’s Coffee Lake family throughout October and November and that while the situation is expected to improve a little in December, no guarantees can be made until the first quarter of 2018.
The same sources also predict that while Intel’s plans are to gain back some footing from AMD, it might have the opposite effect, trampling on the sales of its previous generation. After the launch of Coffee Lake, which is expected at a similar price to Kaby Lake, no one is going to be interested in the 7th-gen CPUs. The only advantage to upgrading to Kaby Lake beyond the launch of the 8th-gen is that it isn’t necessary to upgrade from 6th-gen motherboards, but even then features are limited if the user chooses to stick with what they have.
The idea that Coffee Lake will experience a soft launch this year with a hard launch more akin to early 2018 bodes better for current Kaby Lake users while offering Intel a chance to compete against AMD’s upcoming Pinnacle Ridge, which is expected in February.
KitGuru Says: Intel hasn’t been clear about the launch of its upcoming CPU line, leaving a lot of people including myself a little confused as to how it will be handling itself in the coming years. That being said, with the claimed 45 percent boost on 7th-gen processors, maybe it’s time for an upgrade. Are you interested in Coffee Lake?
I’m sorry but I think it’s only fair to the consumers not hiding the words here. It’s clearly a paperlaunch with the real and factual launch in Q1 just like Pinnacle Ridge from AMD. Sending out reviewers SKU’s and a couple of thousand locked CPU’s to dealers does not constitute a launch. It’s called stall tactics that will end up hurting intel own sales of their current gen. Everyone else will get Ryzen or Threadripper.
How else are Intel going to get suckers to buy them at inflated prices?
Same issue as Vega, Late to the show and no supply and inflated prices. Sad. My TR 1950X is on the way anyhow, so whatever happens with Coffee Lake doesn’t bother me, and won’t bother me, till intel comes out with a 16c+ chip that doesnt consume 750w when overclocked. 1950X will have a decent upgrade path in the years down the line with increasing IPC, lower power consumption and maybe higher core counts. Coffee Lake? Probably another platform for the next gen of cpus too..
I’ve got my 1800x for a few months now. I think I’m fine. Though I’d really love the threadripper.
Yep I am thinking either just a paper launch for the most part to get people to stray away from AMD Ryzens or a tactic to be able to sell the CPU’s at higher than stated prices because of supply and demand. Either way with the very much rumored z390 platform supposed to be coming along in the spring to beginning of the summer I think people would be crazy to buy into the z370 platform if it is only a stop gap solution with probably no farther upgrade path.
That is what they did with the z270 platform which is already pretty much a dead end upgrade path even before a year after it’s release. Again the z390 is a strong rumor that is supposed to come out to support 8/16 core CPU’s if this is actually true then Intel should have just either made the z370 platform support these 8/16 CPU’s and waited until the platform was ready to do so anything else is just plain stupid on Intel’s part.
I myself am a Intel fan not a fanatic fan I just bought them because they were the best choice if you wanted the best performance well anything after the Pentium 4’s that is. Now with AMD in the game again we have a bit of choice and I am pretty much going with Ryzen+ platform when it is released next year and then all I have to do is upgrade to Ryzen 2 CPU when they come out and will be able to keep the rest of the system intact without having to shell out for another mainboard again.
Sorry Intel for now you have lost a loyal customer if you ever get your head out of your butt and release products that make sense again I may return to the fold and buy your products again. For now that is not the case and AMD it is this time around when I finally upgrade my i7 2700K 4/8 CPU @ 5.1GHz
as everyone know intel tending to make money off of us. They will release many and many version of Lake, to able to get the best of them we would buy ryzen until the best lake is out at more affordable price. Intel doesnt support 4 years like ryzen.
1800x is so cheap now even cheaper as intel release new lake. BUT the fact is intel keep releasing lake there will be a better one when you can wait. Buying ryzen now, until amd couldnt compete with intel anymore then buy intel this is just a suggestion to help you save money.
intel using this tactic as their advantage to inflate price and destroy amd forever
Luckily, I think Ryzen is strong enough for most to at least consider it in their builds, only Intel fanboys will automatically buy Intel now.
Unless you are getting an i7 or a Pentium G4560, then there is little reason to consider Intel. R5 is a way more sensible option than an i5. Those 4 cores 4 threads are already harming performance in newer titles and won’t be enough to keep up in 1-2 years time. While the R5 may be weaker per core, it will have a huge advantage in overall power.
How come my son now owns a 8700K, which I paid for… they are in short supply but they can be purchased. It arrived a couple of weeks ago.