Intel Kaby Lake release date news: Leaked data reveals spec details and release plans
For the better part of the year, Intel has been keeping a tight lid about the details of their next generation chipset built around the new Kaby Lake-architecture. However, a leaked document from the company — which was meant for the eyes of its partners and manufacturers — has now apparently been leaked online and has revealed some details about their next generation chipsets for desktops.
The company had already started to roll out its low-powered Kaby Lake-based laptop chipsets, but not much is really known as of now about its desktop counterparts.
Last week, the company had sent out a "Product Change Notification" out to its partners, but the document was briefly made available on the company's website. The document itself revealed several details about its next generation chipsets and its new 200-Series processors.
The leaked document revealed that the company apparently intends to release a total of 11 new quad-core processors for desktops in the coming months. The desktop chips — which are all based on the Kaby Lake architecture — will be released in the first quarter of 2017. The document also revealed that the company would be launching seven new Core i5 models, three new Core i7 models, and one new Xeon E3 v6 chip.
The leaked document also advises its partners and manufacturers to ready themselves to receive the first shipment of Kaby Lake chips, which are being assembled in Vietnam. Details about the new chips were also outlined and revealed that all of the chips will be having a 100 to 300 MHz higher base frequencies compared to their Skylake-based counterparts.
The new chips will, however, have the same TDP and cache sizes as the older models. While no Turbo frequencies were revealed in the leak, the new chips will apparently be able to throttle up much faster thanks to the company's Speed Shift V2 technology.
Given that Intel is planning to release their new chips in Q1 2017, it would be interesting to see how it will fare when it faces against AMD's new Zen chipsets, which are also scheduled to be released early next year.
