Intel 14nm Kaby Lake "Skylake Refresh" Platform Detailed - Launching in 2H 2022, 256 MB eDRAM H-Series and 91W K-Series Unveiled

Intel is going to launch their Skylake-Refresh platform codenamed Kaby Lake in 2H of 2022 as reported in a slide by Benchlife. The Kaby Lake platform will exist like to Skylake platform that launches this year and will act as a platform refresher while Intel's 10nm node matures and arrives the same twelvemonth on mobility devices in the Cannonlake lineup of processors. Intel Kaby Lake Processor SKU Lineup

Paradigm Credits: Benchlife

Intel 14nm Kaby Lake Processor Lineup Detailed - Grand/S/H/U/Y Serial SKUs Detailed

Just like the 14nm based Broadwell and the upcoming Skylake, Kaby Lake will exist bachelor in several variants. The desktop Kaby Lake-Southward serial volition feature unlocked and locked processors along wide server and workstation parts. There would too be Kaby Lake-H, Kaby Lake-U and Kaby Lake-Y series powering a range of devices from high-stop laptops to power efficient mobility devices. While Broadwell makes use of a 14nm process, much of its architecture design is carried over from Haswell that came before information technology hence a new socket is required to fully support the new processors. Skylake with its new CPU/GPU compages will feature better IPC and graphics operation while keeping the power consumption lower due to the 14nm procedure node which is designed by Intel within their own Fabrication plants.

This news might audio a bit odd merely it seems like Intel is actually going alee with this roadmap and delaying their 10nm process based Cannonlake processors. It is highly likely that we will see Cannonlake in some course around Q4 2022 in U-series and Y-Series lineup merely we cannot await anything more until then on the 10nm front end. This aligns with the previous roadmap we got to run into a few months back which besides stated a similar date for Cannonlake and Skylake-Refresh platform launch. As far as the processors are concerned, the Kaby Lake processor lineup will feature compatibility on existing 100-Serial motherboards featuring the LGA 1151 socket.

Intel Kaby Lake-South Serial Desktop and Workstation Processors

The Kaby Lake-Due south series processors will include several SKUs ranging from the regular GT2 based dual and quad cadre processors and 91W Quad Core 1000-Series chips which will feature fully unlocked multiplier for overclocking enthusiasts. There would besides exist 35W and 65W quad core processors featuring GT4 graphics with 64 MB L4 cache but these fries volition exist office of the Skylake-Southward family unit but will launch after. The rest of the lineup is the WS (Workstation) and server parts which include quad core lxxx/54/25W processors with no integrated graphics chips and 25-80W GT2 powered Quad Cores. These chips will exist uniform with the 100-series chips and volition feature DDR4 and DDR3L retentiveness support.

Intel Kaby Lake-H Serial Processors - 256 MB L4 eDRAM Cache

The Kaby Lake H-Serial will be featured on the BGA1440 package with TDPs ranging from 45-35W. The H-Serial will consist of Quad Core variants only with GT2 graphics while the PCH volition be featured on the motherboard of the main device. Intel will besides launch a high-end model in the H-Series lineup which volition characteristic a TDP that is higher than 45W (TBD) but fuse faster GT4 graphics. This fleck volition arrange dual eDRAM packages of size 128 MB. This will be the fastest graphics processor Intel volition launch due to its 256 MB L4 cache that will power the next generation iGPU from Intel.

Intel Kaby Lake-U Series Processors

The Kaby Lake-U Series will be feature on the BGA1356 package and have TDPs ranging from 15W up to 28W. The processors will feature two CPU cores and have a option of GT2 and GT3 graphics cadre. These SOC fries volition accept the Kaby Lake PCH integrated on the main processor die itself. The GT2 chips will accept no eDRAM but the GT3 chips will feature 64 MB L4 cache to deliver higher bandwidth to the integrated graphics core.

Intel Kaby Lake-Y Series Processors

The Kaby Lake-Y serial is what we will be getting in the first round on the BGA1515 package. These chips volition feature a TDP all the style down to four.5W which is what we currently get on Core Yard series CPUs. The Y-Serial processors will come in dual core models with GT2 graphics fries that doesn't adapt whatever eDRAM cache and will characteristic a full SOC design.

Intel Kaby Lake SKU Details:

Intel 14nm Kabylake Configuration Table - Wccftech

Variant	KBL-Y (BGA)	KBL-U (BGA)	KBL-H (BGA)	KBL-S (LGA)	KBL-S (LGA)
Cores Configurations	2	2/2	4/4	2/4/four	iv/4
Graphic Configurations	GT2	GT2/GT3	GT2/GT4	GT2/GT2/GT4	GT0/GT2
eDRAM	N/A	N/A / 64 MB	N/A / 256 MB	N/A / N/A/ 64 MB	N/A
SOC Design	Yes	Yes	No - External PCH	No - External PCH	No - External PCH
TDP	4.5W	15W / 28W	35W / 45W / TBD	35W / 65W / 91W	25W / 45W / 80W

Intel Kaby Lake Platform Block Diagrams:

Intel Mainstream Platforms Comparison Chart:

	Intel Sandy Bridge Platform	Intel Ivy Bridge Platform	Intel Haswell Platform	Intel Broadwell Platform	Intel Skylake Platform	Intel Kaby Lake Platform	Intel Cannonlake Platform
Processor Compages	Sandy Bridge	Ivy Bridge	Haswell	Broadwell	Skylake	Kaby Lake	Cannonlake
Processor Process	32nm	22nm	22nm	14nm	14nm	14nm	10nm
Processors Cores (Max)	4	four	4	4	4	4	TBA
Platform Chipset	6-Series "Cougar Bespeak"	7-Series "Panther Point"	8-Series "Lynx Point"	9-Series "Wild True cat Betoken"	100-Series "Sunrise Point"	100-Series "Sunrise Signal"	200-Series "Marriage Point"
Platform Socket	LGA 1155	LGA 1155	LGA 1150	LGA 1150	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	TBA
Memory Support	DDR3	DDR3	DDR3	DDR3	DDR4/DDR3L	DDR4/DDR3L	DDR4
TDPs	35-95W	35-77W	35-84W	65W	35-95W	35-91W	TBA
Thunderbolt	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes "Alpine Ridge"	Yep "Tall Ridge"	Yep
Platform	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA	Desktop LGA
Launch	2011	2012	2013-2014	2015	2015	2016	2016