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Why did they introduce so confusingly many microarchitecture names for 8th gen...

• mfaticaearnin 8y ago
  because they are failing
• majewsky 8y ago
  Marketing. New names make it appear as though progress is made.
• szatkus 8y ago
  Because 10nm is horribly delayed. Skylake was going to be replaced by Cannon Lake, but instead they introduced bunch of Skylake's flavours (and one horrible chip based on Cannon Lake which was just a marketing stunt).
  • phinnaeus 8y ago
    Are you referring to the 8086k?
    • bpye 8y ago
      Na, the i3 8121U [1] is actually a 10nm part but it is worse than Intel's 14nm parts. [1] - https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i3/i3-8121u https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i3/i3-8121u
• paulmd 8y ago
  They've always been there. He's skipping all the mobile/embedded/high-GPU variants for the predecessor to make things look worse for 8th gen. There have always been U, H, Y, R, and sometimes C variants for most of those prior generations. Each die gets a codename, just like now.