Intel Kaby Lake Desktop Processors Ready for Delivery in December

The first Kaby Lake processors will be ready to ship in December, according to a roadmap from Intel. The quality samples of the successor to Skylake will be ready in October. These are quad-cores for the desktop.

Intel’s desktop roadmap published by Benchlife puts the rts, or ready-to-ship, start of the Kaby Lake S processors on December. This concerns the 4 + 2 chips, as Intel calls its quad-cores, which will probably be available in January. The 2+2 processors, or dual cores, will be available in the first quarter of 2017. According to the roadmap, the RTS start date is early February.

The roadmap confirms the rumor that Intel plans to announce Kaby Lake for the desktop at CES 2017 in early January. The mobile chips of the next processor generation will probably come sooner. The first laptops and tablets with the U and Y series of the Kaby Lake processors will probably be announced during IFA 2016 in early September.

Kaby Lake is the third step in Intel’s process architecture optimization strategy. Like Broadwell and Skylake, the chips are produced at 14nm, but contain some optimizations compared to those generations, such as support for Optane SSDs.