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The great equalizer. The i3-8100 was the first i3 to feature four physical cores, effectively democratizing quad-core computing. Before this chip, you had to pay a premium for an i5 to get four cores. After this chip, quad-core became the absolute minimum requirement for a PC to be considered "usable."
Visually identical to its predecessors, the magic lies in the silicon configuration. It stripped away Hyper-Threading but gave you raw physical silicon, which is almost always a better trade-off. It marks the baseline for the modern era of computing—anything older than this feels slow; anything newer feels just fine.
