Rumor: Turbo Boost could come to Cannon Lake Core i3s
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Among all of the market segmentation methods Intel has used to separate Core i3, i5, and i7 mobile processors over the years, the one constant was that Core i3 chips lacked Turbo Boost support. That's held true even as Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs have grown into quad-core, eight-thread parts in 15-W power envelopes.
That one major point of distinction could be about to change if new rumors prove correct. Online publication Laptop Media claims to have new information on a future eighth-generation Core i3 mobile part, the Core i3-8130U, that CPU investigator InstLatX64 claims will be among the first Cannon Lake CPUs produced on Intel's oft-delayed 10-nm process . InstLatX64 also points out a new entry in the Geekbench database ...