Intel's next-generation Coffee Lake Core i3-8300 packs 4C/8T at 4 GHz
A new i3, with 4C/8T, and 4.00Ghz stock? Sign me up, well, if the price is $140 or less. Sounds like a decent chip, if you don't care about forward-thinking plans (otherwise, get a Ryzen 7 1700.)
I mean, AMD's closest competitor, the Ryzen 5 1400, with 4C/8T, and not as high a clock speed, is like $155-170.
If this i3 could come in at $140 or less, then we may have an AMD / Intel mid-range CPU price war on our hands, folks.
Plus, this i3 would really rock for 1080P @ 60FPS gaming rigs, way more so than the G4560. Although, it will probably still be twice the price of the G4560, and not be a drop-in replacement, which I think is a mistake.
Maybe Intel and their OEMs and mobo vendors, just didn't want the added verification expense of insuring a proper upgrade ability of existing Socket 1151 boards, to CFL-S.
Edit: I'm going to go out on a limb here, and predict that these new CFL-S i3 CPUs, WILL NOT have "Turbo", that will remain an i5/i7/i9(?) feature.
I'm also going to predict that if the higher-end i3 CPUs are 4C/4T, then either the lower-end i3 CPUs, will be 4C/4T, and there's a very good chance we will see some 4C/4T Pentium CPUs, and possibly even some 2C/4T Celeron CPUs.
IMHO, "dual-core" (without HyperThreading), is
dead, for modern games and applications and OSes. CFL-S should cement that.