Intel officially announced the i7-8086K 5GHz Anniversary Edition CPU, quickly registering the sweepstakes

Forty years after the release of the 8086 processor - the historic chip originated in the x86 architecture, Intel today announced a limited edition special to celebrate the chip's birthday, named Core i708086K. . This 8-core core chip is capable of overclocking up to 5GHz, while the default clock speed is 4Ghz.

Intel released this new Core i7 on June 8 - 8086 release date 40 years ago. Belonging to the K-series, Core i7-8086K has a multiplier of clock speed that can be changed in BIOS (unlocked multiplier) and ready to overclock to get higher speed.

The chip has six, 12-threaded, GPU Turbo speeds integrated like other chips of the 8th generation Core i7 line. The new chip has a limited number of only 50,000 chips (as planned).

Special chip limited quantity

To further exaggerate this special release, Intel intends to donate the 8086 Core i7-8086K chip via the sweepstakes page, you can register here https://game.intel.com/8086sweepstakes/ (also almost 22 hours). Accordingly the winner will receive an email notification after about 2 weeks from the registration deadline.

Until now Intel has not announced a specific price. Because it is a limited edition special edition, Intel also says it is not sure if the product is widely available.

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