Intel To Assemble Coffee Lake CPUs In Chengdu Plant

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In a product change notice, Intel stated that it will begin assembling Coffee Lake desktop CPUs at its plant located in Chengdu, China.


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[derekullo]

With easy access to resources and altitude from the Himalayas, Coffee Lake is sure to be the most delectable cpu ever!

Let us hope there is no 3pm crash ...

 

[kancaras]

short and straight to the point article with good insights, i like it!

 

[berezini]

Malaysia assembled cpu's will cost more from vendors?

 

[berezini]

I really want to see someone post same model comparison just to make sure there is no difference giving its assembled in CHINA.

 

[Co BIY]

With two plants packaging these .... where are they ?

Just got a Holiday Flyer from Dell. No Coffee Lake anywhere. So OEMs haven't gotten them in time for holiday products. I'm not sure the OEMs will be interested in paying more for the Z chipsets.

I have no doubt that a chip packaged in China will be every bit as perfect as one packaged in Malaysia. For the large multinationals quality is about focus and priority not production location.

 

[Simon Anderson]

Just got back from Chengdu... awesome place. Very modern, very delicious! I'm sure their chips will be just fine

 

[Nintendork]

Ryzen 5 1600/1600X and be happy with a long lasting platform.

 

[jimmysmitty]

I really want to see someone post same model comparison just to make sure there is no difference giving its assembled in CHINA.

You know what assembly is, right? That's the process where they take the CPU die, that is probably manufactured in Arizona, Oregon or Ireland (those are the only three sites that currently support 14nm Fabrication with FAB42 in Chandler being the first 450mm wafer and 7nm FAB) and they combine it with the PCB and IHS. Nothing else happens. Well probably the packaging.

Even then where those will be distributed is anyone's guess. The US might never get a Chengdu manufactured CPU.

Ryzen 5 1600/1600X and be happy with a long lasting platform.

No such thing. The platform itself will get older and you will eventually want to upgrade the motherboard. I do it with every build because there is no reason to try and keep an aging platform around a modern chip.