Intel technical documents fuel rumors of an 8-core Coffee Lake chip
(PCWorld)

A trio of listings on Intel´s documentation site may prove that an 8-core Coffee Lake chip is in the works, which would provide a potential response to AMD´s own 8-core, 2nd-gen Ryzen CPUs.Chip watchers posting to Reddit caught wind of three posts on a Coffee Lake S documentation page, referring to something called a `Coffee Lake S 8+2` chip. Since the current Coffee Lake chips top out at six cores and twelve threads, the natural speculation is that Intel has an 8-core chip waiting in the wings. To read this article in full, please click here