Intel Core i7 7700K Kaby Lake makes an appearance - it's another quad-core

And it's once again a quad-core processors clocked in the 3.60 GHz region with a TurboBoost frequency of 4.20 GHz. Kabi Lake is the 3rd generation processors that Intel fabs at 14nm. The desktop processors based on Kaby will use LGA 1151. The best models will obviously be an unlocked K series processor. 

The Kaby lake platform for desktops will support USB 3.1 and DDR4. The specs of Intel Core i7 7700K Kaby Lake processor surfaced in the SiSoft SANDRA benchmark results page. The Core i7 7700K  listed is once again a quad-core with HyperThreading enabling 8 logical CPUs. The CPU is clocked at 3.60 GHz and can Boost to 4.20 GHz. For example the current Core i7 6700K runs at 4.00 GHz with a boost to 4.20 GHz. The cache is the same, 256 KB per-core L2, and 8 MB shared L3 caches. The processor will use the current LGA1151 socket. Courtesy goes out to wccftech for spotting this entry at SiSoft Sandra.

Microarchitecture	CPU series	Tick or Tock	Fab node	Year 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. It looks like Kaby Lake will be more of the same, slightly better in energy efficiency, though it has to be stated - the processor listed would be an engineering sample. Intel will release Kaby lake in the 2nd half of 2016. 

Click the thumbnail below to see that Sandra Entry.