https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-reveals-coffee-lake-refresh-9th-gen-cpus-headed-by-mighty-core-i9-9900k > Intel has officially taken the wraps off its new Coffee Lake Refresh (9th-generation) processors, which include the Core i9-9900K, Core i7-9700K, and Core i5-9600K. > Obviously any Intel processor launch is major news, but this is a particularly big splash seeing as the Core i9-9900K represents the first mainstream Core i9 offering sporting 8-cores and 16-threads. It has a base clock of 3.6GHz and turbo to 5GHz – yes, it hits 5GHz out of the box – with 16MB of cache, and is priced at $529.99 (around £405, AU$750).