Intel Kaby Lake to Replace Skylake next year

[WYP]

It looks like Intel is going to replace Skylake with "Kaby Lake" CPUs next year. It will use the same 14nm process and have a max TDP of 91W.

Read more on Intel's Kaby lake CPU here.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Eh okay, I did not see that coming! Skylake is very shortlived then. I would like to know more about the K part...

 

[Damien c]

Looks interesting but still no 6 core chips on the mainstream platform is disappointing to put it politely.

Maybe if AMD's Zen CPU's are any good then we might see Intel pull out a CPU for the mainstream market that, won't be just the usual ~8% performance improvement each year or two.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Kaby Lake looks more like a small, incremental refinement of Skylake rather than anything spectacular. Still, I want to know more ha ha!

Considering that Kaby Lake-K is a 1-chip with a PCH chip on the motherboard, I suspect that it won't work with upcoming Skylake boards?

 

[Dark NighT]

Kaby Lake looks more like a small, incremental refinement of Skylake rather than anything spectacular. Still, I want to know more ha ha!

Considering that Kaby Lake-K is a 1-chip with a PCH chip on the motherboard, I suspect that it won't work with upcoming Skylake boards?

I doubt it, the last time we could reuse a motherboard was from sandy to ivy bridge, and even then some would have issues. Intel just loves to release revised sockets. Upside is more new stuff gets sold a lot more so i guess its good for the industry.

 

[Stoner81]

At least it's not another socket change which is something I guess, I would have thought Skylake would have lasted longer than that but hey ho see what happens next year.

I'm still not moving from Haswell any time soon, mostly because the other half would probably kill me

Stoner81.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

I doubt it, the last time we could reuse a motherboard was from sandy to ivy bridge, and even then some would have issues. Intel just loves to release revised sockets. Upside is more new stuff gets sold a lot more so i guess its good for the industry.

At least it's not another socket change which is something I guess, I would have thought Skylake would have lasted longer than that but hey ho see what happens next year.

I'm still not moving from Haswell any time soon, mostly because the other half would probably kill me

Stoner81.

I think it somewhere says Kaby Lake also uses LGA1151 and that it's compatible with the H100 series boards? Too knackered to look up where it says that though. If true, it only counts if the new chips support the old PCH on the boards or are 2-chip variants, I presume. So they might not change sockets but if one needs a different motherboard chip, well, we'd need a new motherboard too.

It's way too early to tell, I get that, but I wonder what Kaby Lake has over Skylake in terms of actual performance, but again, I doubt it's significant and it's rather just a refinement.

The killing part sounds so unfamiliar... ;p

 

[Moonchild]

Probably something aimed for the mobile platforms and the mainstream desctop, not something overclockers will be intrested in. I hope it will further improve on the igpu, that's something that will have a big impact on the laptop market, and maybe a reason to upgrade my current one to a move powerfull, yet cheaper.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Probably something aimed for the mobile platforms and the mainstream desctop, not something overclockers will be intrested in. I hope it will further improve on the igpu, that's something that will have a big impact on the laptop market, and maybe a reason to upgrade my current one to a move powerfull, yet cheaper.

Well, there is the 91W K part... E parts are nowhere in sight though, it seems.

"Intel’s 10nm Volume Ramp and Cannonlake Microarchitecture Delayed Due to Yield Problems"

Read more: http://wccftech.com/intel-10nm-ramp-canonlake-delayed-yield/#ixzz3eCZZBfGn


That was to be expected.