Intel Kaby Lake CPUs To Launch January 5th 2017 At CES

We had the pricing details yesterday, but now according to a report we can get our hands on Intel’s Kaby Lake desktop prcoessors sooner than expected.

The latest reports suggest they’ll be available on January 5th, 2017, coinciding with an official reveal at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2017 in Las Vegas.

If the report is correct then we can see that kaby lake will lauch head-to-head with amd's zen chips processor.

CPU	Cores / Threads	Clock Speed	L3 Cache	Price
Intel Core i7-7700K	4/8	4.2 GHz	8MB	$349
Intel Core i7-7700	4/8	3.6 GHz	8MB	$309
Intel Core i5-7600K	4/4	3.8 GHz	6MB	$239
Intel Core i5-7600	4/4	3.5 GHz	6MB	$219
Intel Core i5-7500	4/4	3.4 GHz	6MB	$199
Intel Core i5-7400	4/4	3.0 GHz	6MB	$189

As for the chips themselves, Kaby Lake is seen as a bit of a stop gap more than anything else.Intel recently shifted away from the Tick-Tock cadence to Process>Architecture>Optimization. Kaby Lake is the latter,so it doesn't mean a process shrink like 14nm Broadwell and it also means no new architecture like Skylake. Instead it's a refinement of what's already there thanks to maturation of the manufacturing process.

We'll know for sure whether Intel Kaby Lake desktop CPUs are worth early next year.