This year’s Computex event has been the stage for the launch of new Asus ZenBooks, 17 laptops from Nvidia, and new chipsets from AMD. There’s also an addition to the list from Intel. The Santa Clara headquartered chip manufacturer has unveiled a new special edition desktop gaming processor: the 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900KS. 

The special edition chip is the first to come with all 8 cores running at a turbo frequency of 5.0 GHz, making a powerful chip even more powerful. The normal Intel Core i9-9900K chip has 8 cores, some of which run at the maximum 5.0 GHz. This special edition set makes it more powerful by running all of the cores at the maximum turbo frequency.

Just for a glance, features of the normal Intel Core i9-9900K chip include:

• 3.6 Ghz base clock speed
• 16 MB Intel Smart Cache
• Supports more than 220 FPS display on some PC games
• Up to 8 cores and 16 threads
• Up to 40 platform PCIe 3.0 lanes
• Intel Optane Memory Support
• $490 price

Intel CEO Bob Swan image: Intel

At Computex, Intel also showcased its first volume 10nm processor, a product code-named Ice Lake. The company claims graphics on various games are expected to nearly double the performance compared to that of the Gen 9 with the 10nm processor.