[News] Intel Kaby Lake mainstream CPU lineup revealed

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http://www.fudzilla.com/news/process...ineup-revealed

Chinese tech website Coolaler posted an extensive list of Intel?s upcoming Kaby Lake desktop processors based on Socket LGA 1151 yesterday.

There are 10 processors in the list, all quad-core parts with TDPs ranging from 35W up to 95W ? and only two unlocked models. The lineup is broken up into three segments ? ?K? series for unlocked parts, ?S? series which means ?standard? parts without suffixes, and ?T? series which means low-power variants.

The main difference on the surface between Kaby Lake and Skylake desktop parts is that the clockspeeds seem to be increased. Architecturally speaking, however, the new design should give at least 5 to 10 percent overall performance improvement based on benchmarks released back in May. The chips will also add native USB 3.1 support, native Thunderbolt 3 support, native HDCP 2.2 support, full fixed-function HEVC main10 and VP9 10-bit hardware decoding. In terms of a release date, the source mentions that Kaby Lake mainstream desktop parts have been slightly pushed to early Q1 2017.

As announced earlier this week at the Intel Developer Forum, the company?s current focus is to bring the new architecture to mobile form factors (4W to 15W TDP) this fall for the various shopping seasons beginning with so called "back to school", before continuing with desktop products in the first quarter of next year.

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