Refreshed MacBook Pro series with ULV Kaby Lake-R could be coming soon

[Redaktion]

New unconfirmed entries point to a 14-inch MacBook Pro sporting the latest quad-core Core i5-8250U CPU with 8 GB of RAM.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Refreshed-MacBook-Pro-series-with-ULV-Kaby-Lake-R-could-be-coming-soon.251604.0.html

[Aleksey]

"MacBookPro14,1" is a codename for current generation MacBookPro without touchbar:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/4229482?baseline=4177217

Same motherboard ID while touchbar model is a bit different:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/4229316?baseline=4177217

As these processors are designed to be easy drop-in replacements a new model is very unlikely. But there is a hope for 4-core refresh