Intel announces 7th Gen Core Processor nicknamed Kaby Lake
- Steven Schroeder
- Aug 31, 2016
- 2 min read
Intel's current processors, nicknamed Skylake is getting a slight performance increase and refresh with the newly announced Kaby Lake CPU's, which will bear the "7th Generation Core" branding. As mentioned above, the new processor is a refresh of the 14nm Skylake processors with better efficiency and power improvements, and it makes way for the 10nm Cannonlake processor which is expected to be released sometime in 2017.
The Kaby Lake processor could also make it's return to Apple's current laptops, such as the Macbook Pro and even the Macbook Air, as they have skipped the Skylake processor. Additionally, Microsoft's own Surface Book suffered through power management issues regarding to the Skylake processor, as well. Furthermore, the Skylake processors have promoted other PC manufactures to release more firmware and driver updates than usual for some models.
The Kaby Lake processor is the second to use their "Tick-Tock" strategy and Intel isn't focusing on performance and power updates, they're rather focusing on how people will use the processor. Some use cases include viewing multiple 4K video streams, 360-Degree videos, and VR and AR applications. There is also better support for Windows Hello, which is Microsoft's facial recognition login system, which is starting to be found on more and more PC models.
As far as performance and efficiency is concerned, the Kaby Lake processors are up to 10 times more efficient on the performance per watt scale when comparing it to the first generation processors, whereas the 6th-Generation Skylake was only 8 times better. Web performance is improved by a whopping 19% in Intel's benchmarks, and productivity is also improved at being 12% faster.
Interestingly, Intel's Kaby Lake processors could pave way for laptops being powered by the processor that is "thinner than 10mm" which is thinner than HP's already thin Spectre 13. Kaby Lake processors will be included in Intel's dual core mobile chips such as the Core M3, then will be in the Core i3, i5 and i7 models. Intel is claiming that OEM's will start to use Kaby Lake processors from the start of September and then move up from there.
Via: | The Verge |
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Source: | Intel |
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