During its Computex 2016 presentation, Intel has confirmed that its 14nm 7th generation Core Kaby Lake CPUs will enter production later this year and will actually release in 2016, alongside entry-level Apollo Lake CPUs.

In case you missed it earlier, Intel has actually broken its tick-tock development strategy, where the "tick" represents a node shrink with new manufacturing process, like the 14nm Broadwell chips, while "tock" is a new architecture, as it was the case with 14nm Skylake chips. By making Kaby Lake chips on 14nm manufacturing process, this made them a "semi-tock".

Intel's 7th generation Kaby Lake CPUs are expected to bring significant tweaks and optimizations as well as native support for USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt 3 and should fit recently spotted Intel 200-series chipset based motherboards.

During its Computex 2016 keynote, Intel's General Manager of Intel's Client Computing Group, Navin Shenoy, said: "I'm excited to tell you that two new products will be coming from Intel later this year: Apollo Lake for the value and entry-level PC, 2-in-1 and tablet, and the 7th Generation Core, formally codenamed Kaby Lake, will be coming later this year.

We have over 400 designs coming to market on the Seventh Gen Core, and you can expect lots of innovations from our OEM partners bringing this product to market."

Intel's entry-level Apollo Lake will be based on the same 14nm manufacturing process and should provide some interesting tablet design wins due to its improvements.

Intel's Kaby Lake could be coming sometime in November, according to previous rumors.





Source: via Tweaktown.com.