Kaby Lake

<p>Kaby Lake is <a href="/facts/Intel/SMF0gJJX">Intel</a>'s <a href="/facts/List_of_Intel_codenames/bHsKcU7u">codename</a> for its seventh generation <a href="/facts/Intel_Core/lwa8VSdT">Core</a> <a href="/facts/Microprocessor/Fx9CaQht">microprocessor</a> family announced on August 30, 2016. Like the preceding <a href="/facts/Skylake_(microarchitecture)/qpcDcebM">Skylake</a>, Kaby Lake is produced using a <a href="/facts/14_nanometer/lQYsD92n">14 nanometer</a> <a href="/facts/Semiconductor_device_fabrication/Jd23Mu1z">manufacturing process technology</a>. Breaking with Intel's previous "<a href="/facts/Tick%25E2%2580%2593tock_model/CeKPeLur">tick–tock</a>" manufacturing and design model, Kaby Lake represents the optimized step of the newer <a href="/facts/Process%25E2%2580%2593architecture%25E2%2580%2593optimization_model/j4BM5X5r">process–architecture–optimization</a> model. Kaby Lake began shipping to manufacturers and <a href="/facts/Original_equipment_manufacturer/hmUhIWaS">OEMs</a> in the second quarter of 2016, with its desktop chips officially launched in January 2017.
</p><p>In August 2017, Intel announced Kaby Lake Refresh (<a href="/facts/Kaby_Lake_R/DbfMWB0T">Kaby Lake R</a>) marketed as the 8th generation mobile CPUs, breaking the long cycle where architectures matched the corresponding generations of CPUs and meanwhile also supporting <a href="/facts/Windows_11/J2ywV8r4">Windows 11</a>. Skylake was anticipated to be succeeded by the <a href="/facts/10_nanometer/h5qaJnz9">10 nanometer</a> <a href="/facts/Cannon_Lake_(microarchitecture)/GN2Ixtzr">Cannon Lake</a>, but it was announced in July 2015 that Cannon Lake had been delayed until the second half of 2017. In the meantime, Intel released a fourth 14 nm generation on October 5, 2017, named <a href="/facts/Coffee_Lake/oASqYsf2">Coffee Lake</a>. Cannon Lake would ultimately emerge in 2018, but only a single mobile CPU was released before it was discontinued the following year.
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Kaby Lake open-in-new

Kaby Lake