Intel Prepping Core i9-9700K With 8 Cores and 16 Threads

It is pretty crazy to think that just about a year ago the Core i7-7700K was launched as Intel’s flagship mainstream desktop processor. This was of course a quad-core processor. Then not that long ago Intel launched the i7-8700K, which brought the core count up to 6. The i7-8700K sits as Intel’s flagship in the mainstream series. Now it looks like Intel’s Core i9 Series will make it to the mainstream as well.

8th Gen Intel Core S series Chip.0

The new flagship could be the Intel Core i9-9700K. This processor could pack in 8 cores and 16 threads on the very small 10nm Cannon Lake CPU architecture. Now we should expect the Core i9-9700K to have moderate clock speeds, but where it really is going to shine is multi-tasking with its 8-cores and 16-threads compared to the i7-8700K’s 6-core, 12-thread configuration.

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