According to latest rumors, Intel is planning to release their new Coffee Lake CPUs alongside the Z370 chipset in Q4 2017. Although the acclaimed launch date will be somewhen during the first days of October, news leaks related to Coffee Lake are making it through almost every day now.


The upcoming Intel 300 series chipset will still use the current socket LGA 1151. Although the chipset and the pin-count is the same as on the current 200 series, you will need a new motherboard. Intel's Z370 platform could receive a significant upgrade on the network side such as an integrated WiFi module and support for a faster Ethernet standard. Furthermore we will see more I/O ports, such as more USB 3.0 as well as USB 3.1 ports.

The new chipset lineup will include Z370 and H370 chipsets. While the Z370 is designed for enthusiast motherboards, the H370 is going to replace the current H270 chipset which is Intel's current mainstream offering. Last but not least, Intel will add an entry-level chipset which is going to be called H310. According to the roadmap, Intel is going to release Z390 during the second half of 2018.

Thanks to a post from Eurocom on their official forum, there are now some more details on this chipset. On of their users has mentioned that the Z390 chipset is designed to support CPUs with up to 8-cores. In order words, Intel might release a mainstream 8-cores processors based on Coffee Lake or Ice Lake somewhen in the second half of 2018. This is a pretty interesting detail and it will certainly be great to find Intel 8-core chips making it into the mainstream market.



Source: Videocardz