Intel teases speedy ‘Coffee Lake’ processors that could come to Apple’s 2018 MacBooks

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Intel’s 8th-generation processors, codenamed ‘Coffee Lake,’ will be faster than the previous generation by a wider margin than previously thought, with the chip producer claiming the new generation could offer 30 percent more performance compared to the 7th-generation ‘Kaby Lake’ chips, believed to be used in the upcoming MacBook refresh. In Intel’s testing of the “Coffee Lake” processors, the chip maker claimed it saw a “performance improvement of more than 30 percent” over the 7th-generation equivalents. During its investor meeting in February, Intel had initially claimed the performance improvement between the processor generations was 15 percent. The footnotes from the Computex statement by Intel Client Computing Group Corporate VP and General Manager Gregory Bryant that this performance improvement was seen under a single synthetic benchmark, SYSmark 2014 version 1.5, and between just one processor from each generation. For “Kaby Lake,” Intel used an i7-7500U processor with 8 gigabytes of DDR4-2133 RAM, while “Coffee Lake” was represented by “estimates” for a processor, with a turbo clock speed of up to 4GHz, an undisclosed base clock, and using DDR4-2400 memory. The note advises performance estimates are “Pre-Silicon and are subject to change,” with a 7-percent margin of error. Despite this, if Intel’s figures are accurate and the supposedly comparable processor enters production, computers using “Coffee Lake” chips will s ...

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