Intel Announces 40th Anniversary Core i7-8086K, Giving Away 8,086 Processors

[therealduckofdeath]

Selling is not the same as a give away. That's what makes it different.

Kind of true. There is one country in the EU with strong exceptions to general sweepstakes laws, Sweden. Sweden still clings on to their old-school gaming commission outlawing anybody but the government to arrange such things. Other than that, I don't know of any country within the EU with exceptions that would prohibit them from taking part in this particular sweepstake. It's for the chance to win a processor, not a car or a house.

 

[Karadjgne]

Site is open, however, there's a countdown as to when the sweepstakes actually starts and then you have 24hrs to enter.

So a 2½ day teaser, then a mad rush to enter. Figures.

 

[Brian_R170]

They say electronics get smaller and smaller, but the latest CPUs are almost five times as large as the 40 years old 8086...

Yes, the die is about 5 times larger, but it's got 3,000,000,000 transistors compared to 20,000. That means in theory, with the same functionality, and 8086 processor die based on the 14nm++ process could be 1/30,000 of the size of the original 8086 (assuming you can figure out how to attach 40pins to a die that small.

 

[USAFRet]

Have you (or anyone you know) ever won or heard of anyone actually winning a sweepstake? Not once in my life

A coworker. His wife enters in all sorts of things.

Stuff won:
Trip for 2 to the Superbowl
ATV
A Big Green Egg grill, that will soon be sitting on my back porch for 1/2 retail price.

 

[logainofhades]

I would gladly take one, though I would never buy one. I can't justify replacing my 6700k, at this time.

 

[junglist724]

De lid the 8700k and voila, u got an 8086k.

5.0ghz turbo? Delid + liquid metal + copper ihs + custom loop = 5.2 or more in the 8700k XD

Ummmm.... no. Even a 5.0GHz OC is not guaranteed.

 

[bit_user]

Processor Generation: First Eighth Eighth

What?!?

I get 19, just taking a facile approach of counting different desktop product names:

Model         Gen
8086          1
80186         2
80286         3
80386         4
80486         5
Pentium       6
Pentium Pro   7
Pentium II    8
Pentium III   9
Pentium 4    10
Core 2       11
i-series,v1  12
...
i-series,v8  19

Of course, one can argue over what really constitutes a generation, but if we just go by Intel's code names, then there'd be three Pentium 4's (and don't forget Pentium D), at least two Core 2's, for instance. Not to mention laptop chips (hey, if we're talking about core architecture, then Pentium M should count for one, as well as Core 1).

This was just a silly row to even include.

 

[bit_user]

BTW, you could've highlighted other key advancements:

• 
  ■ Caches
  ■ Privileged execution levels
  ■ Memory protection & virtual memory support
  ■ FPU (original 8087 was a separate chip that didn't materialize until 1980)
  ■ Multi-processor support
  ■ Superscalar
  ■ Speculative execution
  ■ Vector processing
  ■ Out-of-order execution
  ■ Switched interconnects (PCIe)
  ■ Multi-core
  ■ Cryptographic acceleration
  ■ Integrated GPUs
  ■ Encrypted memory segments
  ■ TSX extensions

Just a small list of capabilities x86 CPUs have gained, over the years.

 

[bit_user]

They say electronics get smaller and smaller, but the latest CPUs are almost five times as large as the 40 years old 8086...

You should be comparing the size of 8086 to a single core of Coffee Lake. Even then, the new core does vastly more.

That the newer dies are that much bigger is a further testament to how far chip manufacturing has come. Don't complain like it's a bad thing!

 

[Karadjgne]

Silicon has limits. Current speculation has that limit at @5nm process. Why Intel and Amd haven't reached that limit is due to other limiting factors like heat, electrical bleed etc. So 7nm and 10nm are the next best thing they are looking at. But to get processing power ability of at least 10% higher than last releases of cpus, the die simply will have to get bigger. By at least 10%. Or make motherboards with dual cpus.

One of these days, in a few years, Intel and Amd are going to figure out a way to get to that 5nm process and have a viable cpu. After that, they'd better figure out something different than a silicon based cpu or the only way to increase ability will be to make the cpu die bigger, adding more transistors per core. If they don't, your Artificial Intelligence 1000 core pc will be powered by a cpu the size of your motherboard.

 

[Krazie_Ivan]

GL everyone!

...hmm... win CPU, use $370 saved to reasonably cool it
-or-
sell CPU to someone desperate to own a slice of history, & fund a Zen 2 build next spring... (?)

 

[FredS]

Who wants an 8086? I have many being used for paper weights, also 80116 and 80286. Send me one encased in acrylic and I would like that. How about an 8084 signed by the engineers,?

 

[Rexer]

So I can plop this little cookie into my Z370 motherboard, eh? Nice.

 

[kyotokid]

...well looks like no point in bothering as (like myself) if you still run under W7, you won't get 5 GHz out of the CPU because Turbo Boost 3.0 is only supported by W10 and are also stuck with only 2 instead of 3 or 4 memory channels.

C'est La Vie.

I'll stick with my 6 core Xeons.

 

[YoAndy]

They say electronics get smaller and smaller, but the latest CPUs are almost five times as large as the 40 years old 8086...

Actually if you look at the actual picture of both CPU's, new ones are not 5 times larger like you are saying. The newer intel die size is only about 20%-30% larger, And yet comparing a modern micro processor like the i7-8086K with the older 8086,. The 8060 is a 16-bit microprocessor with 16-bit data bus, Up to 10 MHz, 1 MB RAM, 64K I/O ports, 40-pin DIP, 56-pin QFP, 44-pin PLCC. On the other hand compare that to the newer core i7-8086K 64 GB of DDR4 memory, on board graphics iGPU 1.2 GHz, 4GHz frequency and 5GHz turbo, 12 MB SmartCache and 1 CPU- 6 cores -12 threads and you have a cpu that is more than a million times faster..

 

[Onus]

Wow, this takes me back to the mid 80's, and going to Comdex, and seeing what I believe was an 8088 system there that had been overclocked to 20MHz, flying through some 1-2-3 macros.

 

[Sam Hain]

Would love to enter, but link fail as others have stated. "Sweepstakes" page will pop-up but is quickly replaced by Intel's homepage, regardless of browser/browser permissions (et al.) used.

 

[bit_user]

They say electronics get smaller and smaller, but the latest CPUs are almost five times as large as the 40 years old 8086...

Actually if you look at the actual picture of both CPU's, new ones are not 5 times larger like you are saying. The newer intel die size is only about 20%-30% larger,

The article quoted 33 mm^2 vs 149 mm^2, which is a ratio of about 4.5.

Otherwise, I agree with you. The fact that newer chips are so much larger, in spite of also being denser is actually a triumph - not a negative. It points to low wafer prices and high yields, as well as design tools and development processes that make the creation of such monstrously complex chips a feasible endeavor.

Those are also the main factors holding back @Karadjgne's vision of motherboard-sized chips - wafer pricing and yield would make that infeasible, for the foreseeable future. But multi-chip and multi-CPU architectures let you sort of approximate the same thing by using multiple discrete pieces of silicon.

 

[NewbieGeek]

I don't really care about the cpu, but I'm tempted to buy one to resell.

 

[Jake Hall]

Well? Did anyone win?

 

[bit_user]

Well? Did anyone win?

Odds in the US were probably worse than 10k:1, so it's not expected that any forum regulars would've (unless some engaged in automated ballot-stuffing).

I didn't, but probably wouldn't advertise if I did.

 

[Onus]

No email from Intel, so I guess not.

 

[shrapnel_indie]

No email from Intel, so I guess not.

Same here.

 

[Paul Alcorn]

I definitely did not win.