Intel begins delivery of Skylake processor successors to manufacturers

Intel has started supplying Kaby Lake processors to hardware manufacturers. The company announced this during the discussion of its quarterly figures. Kaby Lake is the successor to Skylake, which appeared last year.

It seems that the first products with Kaby Lake processors can appear this year, because the processors are already available to manufacturers. When discussing the quarterly results, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says that Kaby Lake delivers “meaningful performance gains” compared to Skylake.

It is obvious that the Kaby Lake processors that Intel is talking about are the mobile variants, intended for use in laptops, for example. A roadmap from Intel last month showed that the other variants would not be ready for delivery until December.

Kaby Lake is the third step in Intel’s process architecture optimization strategy. Like Broadwell and Skylake, the chips are produced at 14nm, but contain some optimizations compared to those generations, such as support for Optane SSDs.