Intel has unveiled its special-edition Core i7-8086K desktop processor at Computex 2018.<\/p>\n
According to a report from Tom’s Hardware<\/strong><\/a>, Intel will give away 8,086 of the limited edition CPUs via an online portal<\/a><\/strong> which is yet to go live.<\/p>\n The chip is similar to the Intel Core i7-8700K and is compatible with the LGA 1151 v2 socket, meaning it will work with Intel 300-series chipsets.<\/p>\n The Core i7-8086K has been unveiled almost exactly 40 years after the launch of Intel’s original 8086 processor, although the newer version will be overclockable and sports much more impressive specifications.<\/p>\n Intel’s original 8086 processor was shipped on 8 June 1978, and boasted a single core with a 5MHz base clock speed, boosting up to 10MHz.<\/p>\n The chipmaker has not yet revealed the price or launch date of the new processor.<\/p>\n Intel has unveiled a special-edition Core i7 desktop processor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":232227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51385,51383,51381,131,51387],"class_list":["post-263237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-51385","tag-computex-2018","tag-core-i7-8086k-limited-edition","tag-intel","tag-lga-1151-v2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263243,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263237\/revisions\/263243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Intel discovers new chip security flaw<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"