That claim is for Coffee Lake. Intel have recently taken the opportunity to make their line even more confusing; _these_ 8th generation CPUs are "Kaby Lake Refresh". Coffee Lake will be along later.
I'm actually surprised they could narrow it down even that much. The skylake and coffeelake iGPUs always seemed basically identical to the kabylake one.
It's not always. For example "8th gen" Intel has both Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake CPUs, some gens have a mix of 14nm CPUs for desktop and 10nm for Mobile. It's honestly pretty confusing as to which Lake follows what at this point as they are slight refinements of slight refinements.
AMD is at least making it so the second digit will indicate architecture (the first will be year released).
The uarch and core differences between Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake and Comet Lake are neglible. The most significant changes were claims of hardware fixes for some Spectre and Meltdown variants in Coffee Lake, which is still a really minor change. The minor IPC differences arise from different cache sizes and interconnect.
These are effectively i3/i5s there is no Kaby Lak SP/X (well there is technicall X but these are 2-4 core CPUs which isn’t a traditional
X class) and it’s not coming the 2018 refresh is Cascade Lake which is annoying since you’ll have Coffe, Canon and Cascade Lake all the the same time so I’m guessing it will be CFL, CNL and CSL not confusing at all.
Anandtech article announcing Intel's Maple Ridge - a chipset to enable Thunderbolt 4 on future motherboards regardless of the CPU (i.e. Tiger Lake not required.)
Can a Coffee Lake CPU work on a Kaby Lake / Skylake motherboard?
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