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Earlier this year, we learned that Intel would be delaying its first 10nm CPU, codenamed Canonlake, until late 2017, paving the way for Kaby Lake, another 14nm architecture, in 2016. We haven't heard much about Kaby Lake, but some newly leaked slides seem to give us some idea of what to expect from next year's processors. There are two leaked slides, which were shown at an internal presentation at Intel.
New features will include support for 5K displays, “increased core performance” and a new chipset. The slides themselves come from BenchLife, a Chinese site, so keep that in mind when looking at these new details.
The new Kaby Lake processors will apparently work on the current Z170 motherboards so you don't necessarily have to go out and buy a new motherboard if you're currently using Skylake, though there will also be a new chipset, which will be capable of utilising more features, like support for more PCIe 3.0 lanes. The new chipset will have support for up to 24 PCIe lanes, which will help those with multiple GPUs or other PCIe-based products.
Intel has been beefing up its internal graphics for a few years now and Kaby Lake will be no exception, though aside from support for 5K at 60Hz, not much else is known right now. The enthusiast quad-core CPU will have a TDP of 95 watts, while other dual and quad-core Kaby Lake chips will run at either 65W or 35W.
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KitGuru Says: Intel's first 10nm CPU won't be around until 2017, so for now, we will be pushing forward with 14nm based products. Kaby Lake will arrive at some point next year, so we should hear more in the coming months. What CPU are you currently running? Are you planning an upgrade any time soon?
Kaby Lake = Skylake Refresh, possibly with a frequency bump to account for the “increased core performance”.
The Z170 chipset itself has 20-lanes of PCIe 3.0, it can support 1×16, 2×8, and 1×8+2×4 configs right now.
http://ark.intel.com/products/90591/Intel-GL82Z170-PCH
An additional 4 lanes on the chipset isn’t going to be dramatic, we aren’t talking about 24 lanes in the main CPU PCIe 3.0 controller, that is still 16.
i heard we’ll get a new Intel Graphics Gen.
Skylake was 9 i think and Kaby Lake will be 10.
I’m thinking and looking more towards Cannonlake for any major IGP improvements; it may be similar to Intel waiting for the Broadwell shrink to bring Haswell Iris Pro to desktop, Skylake and Kaby Lake aren’t going to push much.
Intel’s Iris HD 580 isn’t here yet, but I’m looking towards either HD 590 or HD 680/780 types.
We don’t know what AMD will do for the APU space, but with Intel we have a better idea.
Skylake is 20 off the CPU and another 4 off the chipset. That’s why you can do 2-way SLI and have 2 NVMe drives in RAID 0 with no performance loss.
There are only 16 lanes are used in PCIe slot combinations, as stated in the Intel spec page:
http://ark.intel.com/products/88195/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_20-GHz
nVidia’s SLI does allow two x8 lanes for two graphics cards and the NVMe drives total bandwidth may not exceed the DMI 3.0 link (equivalent to four lanes of PCIe 3.0) speed between the chipset and the CPU.