The 9th generation has been announced and will be available later in October. Not too much to excite. I guess for myself the most interesting thing is the increase in the pcie lanes for the X processors; unfortunately they don't increase the number of sata connections and quite frankly the price point doesn't work for myself. The K processor - esp the i5 is reasonably price but other than the security fixes it doesn't seem to add a whole lot. Hum. Was hopeful one day they would support 10 or 12 sata ports with their chipsets (which will be the z390). Oh they did add increase support for usb 3.1 with z390 so I guess that is a plus for folks on the band wagon. No changes to the integrated video and still 14nm; next chip will be 10nm.