It's nice to note that the news about Intel's plans for the processors Coffee Lake family attracts the attention of those commentators who focus on models with six cores and a free multiplier. The dual-core Coffee Lake models in this sense are of little interest.
Colleagues from the German site WinFuture.de clarify that the bulk of the desktop models Coffee Lake will be released in February next year. In the mobile segment in September this year, the Kaby Lake Refresh processors will be introduced, and the debut of the Gemini Lake processors is scheduled for December.
They claim that Coffee Lake processors will get an integrated voltage control unit that was once lost by their predecessors. For this reason, new motherboards based on Intel's "three-hundred" will be needed to work with them. Moreover, the processor socket LGA 1151 with the release of Coffee Lake will receive a new revision. Sources expect that DDR3 support will be removed, and the "freed" contacts of the processor socket will be used to improve the reliability of power supply.
But the new motherboards with the LGA 1151v2 connector will be able to work not only the processors of previous generations, but also the future 10-nm Cannon Lake, which also attributes the source to the presence of an integrated voltage regulator. What can not be doubted, this is in the possibility of the appearance of some part of Coffee Lake processors assortment in August or September this year. The long-awaited six-core models should come out exactly in this period.