A few more details regarding Intel's next-generation Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors have been leaked online suggesting that these could share the same platform and coming sometime in the second half of next year.

According to the leaked slides from Benchlife.info and although earlier rumors suggested that Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X could be supported by different platforms, mainly since these are based on different architectures, it appears that they could share the same platform, Basin Falls X-series.

The platform, based on Socket R4, also known as the LGA 2066 socket, will have 2066 pins, which means current generation CPUs won't be supported.

The leaked slides show a bit more details as the Skylake-X family will be based on 6-, 8- and 10-core SKUs. These will have 44/28 PCIe 3.0 lanes, lack integrated graphics, have up to 13.75MB of last level cache and have support for DDR4-2666 and DDR4-2400 memory. The Skylake-X will also bring Turbo Boost 3.0 and have a TDP of 140W.

The Kaby Lake-X, on the other hand, will only feature 4-core SKUs have 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes, up to 8MB of last level cache and a 112W TDP. It will feature support for Intel Turbo Boost 3.0 and come with the same support for DDR4-2666 and DDR4-2400 memory.

The same report suggests that both Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X could launch in Q3 or Q4 2017 and that the same Basin Lake X-series platform will probably be present until 2020 as it will support both later Kaby Lake-X CPUs (10+ core) as well as Cannonlake-X CPUs expected later. The new LGA 2076 socket is only expected in 2020 with Ice Lake-X CPUs.





Source: via Wccftech.com.