According to recent reports and the fact that Intel delayed its 10nm Cannonlake family, it appears that Skylake successor will be Kaby Lake, based on 14nm manufacturing process.

Earlier leaked roadmap already suggested that Skylake successor will be a Skylake-refresh, which is now named Kaby Lake.

The new report from Digitimes suggest that the Cannonlake delay is pretty much attributed to Intel having difficulties to switch from 14nm to 10nm and that 14nm Kaby Lake makes more sense. While it was earlier expected that we will see this Skylake-referesh, now known as Kaby Lake, this year, it appears that Intel also moved it to 2016.

The aforementioned 14nm Kaby Lake will be a mere refresh of the Skylake architecture and feature minor architecture improvement. It will probably have better power efficiency and probably end up with higher clocks but should retain LGA1151 socket and upcoming Intel 100-series chipset motherboard support.

In case you missed it earlier, Intel plans to launch its first Skylake-S desktop CPUs on August 5th at Gamescom in Cologne and first CPUs on the market will be the enthusiast-range Core i7-6700K and the Core i5-6600K.

It appears that the next Intel move will not happen until next year and with such delays it looks like we will wait a bit longer for Intel to switch to 10nm manufacturing process.



Source: Hexus.net.