Intel has just released the Coffee lake CPUs line up after the AMD Ryzen CPUs took over the market with more cores and same performance … for less money.

Applications taking advantage of more cores and threads were also taking into account for this next release. The i5 has now 2 more cores and the i7 was upgraded from 4 cores 8 threads from previous generations to 6 cores and 12 threads.

https://www.lonelydarkworld.com/intel-coffee-lake-the-fear-of-competition/