Intel kaby lake will arrive in late 2016

Intel has taken advantage of the Computex event to announce the seventh generation of Core processors called Kaby Lake that will come with the novelty of being manufactured in 14nm and will aim to replace the current Skylake.

Seventh generation of Intel processors at 14nm

Intel has clarified that the Kaby Lak e processors will not only focus on the PC market but will also offer solutions to the retail, signaling, industrial IoT and medicine sectors, so here we will have a multipurpose processor.

Intel highlighted the advances in the performance and power consumption of the Kaby Lake, which are located between Skylake and the new Cannonlake processors that will arrive with the new manufacturing process of 10nm, so we could say that Kaby Lake will be a mere " snack ”from the 8th generation Cannonlake? It is early to be sure, Intel has not shown anything about the performance of this seventh generation that will arrive later this year.

Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake later this year

In addition to Kaby Lake, Intel also announced the arrival of Apollo Lake, the low-power variant that will surely be used in the new generation of ATOM processors. We recommend reading our guide to the best processors on the market.

Important clarification from Intel regarding the Kaby Lake, the LGA 1151 socket of the current Skylake processors will continue to be used through a simple BIOS update, a socket that will also be used by future Cannonlake. They can be used together with DDR3 and DDR4 memories that support higher speed modules.

Intel has also commented on the new 200 series chipset expanding the maximum of PCI-E lines to 24, support for 5K video, 10-bit HEVC and 10-bit VP9 acceleration, native support for USB 3.1, Thunderbolt 3 and 3D memory. XPoint.

We are eager to know what performance this new generation will offer.