Next generation Coffee Lake is Intel's codename for its eighth-generation Core microprocessor family, announced on September 25, 2017.

On October 8, 2018, Intel announced what it branded its ninth generation of Core processors, the Coffee Lake Refresh family.

[7] To avoid running into thermal problems at high clock speeds, Intel soldered the integrated heat spreader (IHS) to the CPU die instead of using thermal paste as on the Coffee Lake processors.

[10] Coffee Lake CPUs are built using the second refinement of Intel's 14 nm process (14 nm++).

The ninth generation Core i series includes hardware fixes for Meltdown and L1 Terminal Fault.

[11] The 300 series chipsets, while using physically identical LGA 1151 socket to the 100 and 200 series chipsets, are officially only compatible with Coffee Lake CPUs, meaning that older motherboards do not officially support Coffee Lake processors,[12][9] and 300 series motherboards do not officially support Skylake or Kaby Lake processors.

When the full lineup of CPUs was revealed in April 2018, it was then accompanied by the lower-end H310, B360, H370 and Q370 chipsets for home and business users.

[20] These processors mark the first time that Intel has released mainstream consumer CPUs that support up to 128 GB RAM.