OCTOBER 2019 PCWorld 11I
ntel said that it plans to ship two high-
end desktop processors next month:
both its monstrous Core i9-9900KS
processor and its upcoming Cascade
Lake-X gaming processor will go on sale.
In a presentation from the IFA show in Berlin,
Ryan Shrout, chief performance strategist at
Intel, said that Intel is aware of the competition,
specifically AMD and Qualcomm, and was
“adjusting” to deliver market-leading products.
AMD has already delivered a cost-competitive
Ryzen processor (go.pcworld.com/rz30), and
there’s reason to believe a next-gen
Threadripper (go.pcworld.com/32th) is
coming soon. As Intel did at Computex (go.pcworld.com/ftpr), the chipmaker announced
future products in hopes of taking some wind
out of its competitor’s sales.
Intel had already announced the Core
i9-9900KS at Computex (go.pcworld.com/
i9ks), a 4GHz, 8-core/16-thread chip that
boosts to 5GHz—and, more importantly, across
all cores simultaneously. That gave Shrout the
opportunity to point out that rival AMD had
been caught out with 3rd-gen Ryzen chips that
underperformed the company’s boost claims,
which AMD blamed on a bug (go.pcworld.
com/blme) that the company will fix.
It’s not clear what the Core i9-9900KS
TDP will be, however, and Intel didn’t offerIMAGE: INTELIntel: Core i9-9900KS, Cascade
Lake-X chips will ship in October
Intel’s IFA presentation positioned its Core chips as superior to both AMD’s and
Qualcomm’s. BY MARK HACHMAN