Just yesterday the Computex 2018 And, despite the fact that it may not be as famous as other fairs of its kind, the truth is that today we are talking about the largest fair that is held in all of Asia, the same where since yesterday firms with great media coverage in all the world present and expose the innovations that are sure to set trends in the coming months worldwide.
To get a little idea of the importance of this fair, tell you that it is currently held in Taiwan, specifically in the city of Taipei, where technology is the economic skeleton of almost all of its population, something that is much easier to understand when we know and take into account that in this city there are companies such as TSMC or ASUS.
This year the event is updated again to talk about the news that is still to come. Thanks to this, we find more than interesting exhibitions where topics of great current relevance will be dealt with, which, in turn, will be related to artificial intelligence, the internet of things, blockchain, gaming, virtual reality or we can directly enjoy presentations as impressive and attractive such as the latest processor developed by Intel, a beast that will surely not leave anyone indifferent thanks to its heart attack features.
Despite the fact that the entire Intel event was related to the presentation of the Core i7-8086K, there was room for something much more special
In this sense, it should be noted that Intel has literally used an event like Computex 2018 to pay a special tribute to the already legendary 8086 processor with the new Core i7-8086K at 5 Ghz, a processor that many have not hesitated to pay homage but that seems to take a back seat when the firm itself has seen fit to briefly show everyone present a mysterious 28-core processor.
As you surely know, today the truth is that Intel already has 28-core processors on the market, which belong to the Xeón range, that is, the highest that the company has for sale today and which today are used, above all, in servers. The idea of this advance is to show the public what will come in a while, specifically and as announced from Intel, we are talking about a processor that will reach the mass consumer market just at the end of the year.
Intel punches the table ahead of all its rivals with the presentation of this new 28-core processor
Little or nothing is truly known about this processor. Many have been those who have commented that we would be facing the generational replacement of the Core i9 Extreme, a processor that this year would go from 18 cores and 36 threads to 28 cores and 56 wires with a speed of up to 5 Ghz base which can be much higher with turbo. Unfortunately we know little or nothing about this processor, neither the architecture on which it has been developed nor the technology it uses, only that it has been equipped with a single socket and has had a score of 7.334 points in Cinebech R15.
Without a doubt I have to confess that this movement has left me quite puzzled since, for once, it seems that Intel has begun to take rivals like AMD very seriously, especially their ability to develop products like the range AMD's Threadripper, a processor that debuted last year with 16 cores and 32 threads at 3 Ghz that was on sale for $ 4. In this sense, it seems that Intel has wanted to get ahead of all its rivals although, The price at which this processor reaches the market is yet to be seen since the current Core i9-7980XE that we talked about in higher lines is priced at $ 1999.