Core i7-7700K incoming to lead the pack! Intel is about to release its latest, seventh-generation Kaby Lake line of processors in full, and some new details of this CPU family has been leaked.
By Chinese sources.
The chip giant detailed these at IDF 2016.
And though we have known for quite some time that Intel has been shipping these processors to OEMs for use in their latest devices, the company is also gearing up to launch these desktop chips at retail sometimes early next year.
The Kaby Lake line is designed with the building blocks of the Skylake that it succeeds, which is to say that they are built on the 14nm manufacturing process.
Intel originally planned to release its 10nm Cannonlake process around this time, but those chips have been delayed until the second half of 2017 as the company ran into issues owing to the extremely small manufacturing node.
Anyway, getting back to the desktop Kaby Lake chips, it has been mentioned that Intel wants to bring out their mobility processors based on this architecture as soon as possible.
That remains their main focus this fall, before they move onto the desktop side of things.
These processors will be made available in three series, named K, S and T, with the former offering an unlocked design for overclocking, the middle one being mainstream standard models, and the latter denoting low power variants designed for AIO and other such desktop PCs.
We can expect another 10% to 15% increase in core performance, the usual.
More importantly, though, the Kaby Lake will see the debut of the Intel Optane technology that utilizes the 3D XPoint memory to deliver high-performance SSD and memory solutions.
Also, just for the record, these CPUs will exclusively support Windows 10, and no previous version of the operating system can be run on these processors.
Unlike Skylake, for which Microsoft was forced to offer support for Windows 7 and 8.1.
source:windows10update
