Intel’s new Kaby Lake chips for PC: Here’s the company’s vision

Kaby Lake bridges the gap until the 10-nanometer Cannonlake, which the chip firm is set to introduce next year. Originally, Kaby Lake was slated to be built at 10 nm, but delays perfecting the new process forced Intel to stick with the larger scale.

Israel has traditionally been an important development center for Intel, with local teams coming up with some of the company’s most important products – among them the Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors, and last year’s Skylake, which are in numerous computers now in use.

The new processors increase productivity with an up to 12 percent faster speed for application processes compared to the previous, sixth-generation, Intel processors, and an up to 19% faster speed for internet use, Senderovitz said. These changes have allowed Intel to significantly bump up the Turbo Boost clocks on Kaby Lake-based mobile processors over Skylake, while maintaining similar thermal and power envelopes. Intel will launch the new 7th Generation Core processors under the brands Intel Core m3, Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, and Intel Core i7. The processors will come to enterprise, workstation, desktop, and enthusiast notebook systems by January 2017. Users will also be able to view 4K content being shared on sites like YouTube, and watch it for longer durations on systems powered by Intel’s 7th generation Core CPUs. At its Intel Developer Forum earlier this month, the company said it plans to make product families in three generations of its emerging 10nm process. The company has chips available at various price points, meaning whether you are buying a budget notebook, or building a super-expensive gaming powerhouse, the company has something that will meet a consumer’s needs.

Lower power usage also means better performance for 2-in-1 computers, tablets and mobile devices.

The Five-Year PlanMuch of Intel’s push around Kaby Lake centered on comparisons to PCs that are five years old, what the company considers the standard upgrade window. Intel says the upshot is that playing a 4K 10-bit HEVC video will offer a 2.6x battery-life improvement and cut power consumption from 10.2 watts on Skylake to 0.5 watts on Kaby Lake.

In an email to HEXUS, Intel supplied some broad performance improvements stats for the new processors. In the benchmarks, the Intel Core i7-7700K scored 151.94GOPS in the Processor Arithmetic Benchmark and 379.08Mpix/s in the Processor Multi-Media Benchmark.

Kaby Lake also has an updated Speed Shift package, to accelerate the work already done with Skylake in boosting the performance of the CPU quicker to save power.

The Y-series processors have a base clock frequency of 1.3GHz and maximum single core frequency of 3.6GHz for the Core-i7 units, while the U-series Core-i7 models have a base frequency of 2.7GHz and a max single core frequency of 3.5GHz. With the tick-tock strategy, and the launch of Skylake in mid-2015, this would leave Intel without a new CPU launch for nearly two years, which is unheard of from Intel. In fact, the new series of processors are expected to bring in the thinnest every convertibles and clamshells at under 10mm thickness.

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