[Info-vax] Chiphead News: Intel announces new Kaby Lake processors

[Neil Rieck]

Intel announces new Kaby Lake: Built on 14nm+, with improved video decode and better top-end frequencies

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/234733-intel-announces-new-kaby-lake-built-on-14nm-with-improved-video-decode-and-better-top-end-frequencies

Today, Intel announced its upcoming Kaby Lake hardware refresh. This launch is the first iteration of Intel’s new Process – Architecture – Optimization strategy (dubbed PAO) that replaced Tick-Tock earlier this year. It’s a change driven by the realities of lithography. As die shrinks have become more difficult, it now takes longer to move from one node to the next. This difficulty is somewhat exacerbated for Intel because it continues to perform full node shrinks rather than relying on hybrid process nodes like TSMC and Samsung.

Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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