More Details Intel 7th Generation Core Kaby Lake and 200-series Chipset

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New slides have leaked onto the web shared tech specs on Kaby Lake. We already knew that Kaby lake would extend the Tick-Tick product release cycle. Kabty Lake will be a small fabbed processor built on 14nm and the third processor series on that 14nm node.



New slides on Kaby Lake surfaced, the new processors are scheduled to launch alongside a 200-series chipset in 2016. Kaby Lake is Intel's codename for the upcoming 14 nanometer successor to the Skylake micro-architecture. Skylake, a "tock" in Intel's "tick-tock" strategy, was to be succeeded by the 10 nanometer Cannonlake, which is a "tick", but it was announced on July 16, 2015 that Cannonlake had been delayed until the second half of 2017.


MicroarchitectureCPU seriesTick or TockFab nodeYear Released
Presler/Cedar Mill Pentium 4 / D Tick 65 nm 2006
Conroe/Merom Core 2 Duo/Quad Tock 65 nm 2006
Penryn Core 2 Duo/Quad Tick 45 nm 2007
Nehalem Core i Tock 45 nm 2008
Westmere Core i Tick 32 nm 2010
Sandy Bridge Core i 2xxx Tock 32 nm 2011
Ivy Bridge Core i 3xxx Tick 22 nm 2012
Haswell Core i 4xxx Tock 22 nm 2013
Broadwell Core i 5xxx Tick 14 nm 2014 & 2015 for desktops
Skylake Core i 6xxx Tock 14 nm 2015
Kaby lake  Core i 7xxx Tock 14 nm 2016
Cannonlake Core i 8xxx? Tick 10 nm 2017

Kaby Lake will add native USB 3.1 support, whereas Skylake motherboards require a 3rd-party add-on chip in order to provide USB 3.1 ports. It will also feature a new graphics architecture to improve performance in 3D graphics and 4K video playback. Kaby Lake will add native HDCP 2.2 support. Kaby Lake will add full fixed function HEVC Main10/10bit and VP9 10bit hardware decoding. Kaby Lake will have an integrated memory controller that supports both DDR4 (2400 MHz) and DDR3 (1600 MHz) memory.

The 200-series chipset tioed to the processor series is tagged under codename "Union Point," and will support Intel Optane SSDs and Rapid Storage Technology support for PCIe storage devices. 

Intel will release Kaby lake in the 2nd half of 2016. Kaby lake will be based on Skylake and will offer better performance. Effectively this means we will see three families of 14nm Intel chips: Broadwell from 2014, Skylake in 2015, and Kaby Lake in late 2016. The 10nm Cannonlake parts will follow in 2017.

Clock the thumbnails below to see the new slides, courtesy of benchlife.info


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