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As you might have expected, companies are updating certain computing products to offer Intel's latest 8th-gen CPU. Today, MSI announced the new processor will be available in its Trident 3 Arctic.

Intel is finally bringing six-cores desktop processors to its mainstream lineup. The new 8th generation Coffee Lake CPUs will feature updated core and thread counts, launching on 8th October.

The Surface Book is still being sold with 6th-gen Intel Core processors, so it was quite a surprise to see it appear today in an Intel video promoting its 8th-gen chips, sporting a black color scheme.

Intel has unveiled its first 8th-gen Core processors today, while further mobile and desktop parts based on the Coffee Lake and Cannonlake architectures will be released in the future.

Intel says that it will formally unveil its new 8th-generation Core processors later this month. The company says it's seen a performance boost of over 30% compared with its 7th-gen 'Kaby Lake' CPUs.

In February, Intel said that its 8th-generation Core processors would deliver at least 15% better performance than their predecessors - but today, it said that it's seeing an improvement of over 30%.