[Rumour] First Core i3 Quad-Core is coming

[nafu]

Intel Core i3-8300 could be the company's first quad-core processor to bear the Core i3 badge. Based on the 14 nm "Coffee Lake-S" silicon, This SKU could be priced in the upper-band of the Core i3 lineup (around the USD $150 mark), offering four cores. As if that isn't surprising enough, this quad-core chip even reportedly features HyperThreading, enabling 8 logical CPUs for the OS to deal with.


For the first time, a Core i3 part will have more logical CPUs than a Core i5 part, which lacks HyperThreading. Such a feature disparity won't be new, as current Core i3 dual-core SKUs feature HyperThreading, which Core i5 quad-core parts lack. The i3-8300, however, will lack Turbo Boost, which Core i5 SKUs will feature. The chip reportedly features a clock speed of 4.00 GHz. The L3 cache amount and TDP of this chip remain unknown at this point. Intel could launch Core i3 "Coffee Lake" processors only by late-2017 or early-2018.

Intel Core i3-8300 Detailed - First Quad-Core i3 | techPowerUp

Well, I'd take it as a rumour cuz the source itself not sure.
In case, if it turns out to be true, Intel i5 processor will definitely be effected from this.

 

[Kane]

They are cranking up the prices which is bad cuz ryzen offers a lot better figures if not performance and this 4 core i3 thing was inevetible...

 

[Nisarpk]

this i3 is a hope for cheap future gaming equipment

 

[jack]

This is thanks to Amd, that is why intel so generously released the g4560 kabylake processor with ht enabled, they knew what was going to happen with ryzen 3. The days of a core i3 processors dual core with ht should now be over. Essentially a core i3 will be a quad core chip similar to a i5 processor.

Additionally it is rumored that upcoming coffee lake i5 and i7 cpu's will be six core processors :

Rumor: Intel's Coffee Lake Could Shake Up Core i3 Family - ExtremeTech