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Intel released the first of its lightly refreshed Kaby Lake processors late last year, but those chips only covered thin-and-light laptops and convertibles. Today at CES, the company officially took the wraps off the rest of the lineup, including a full range of socketed desktop processors, a number of quad-core laptop chips for gaming laptops and mobile workstations, and a few additional laptop chips with higher clock speeds and better integrated GPUs.
| Know your codenames | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Codename and year | Process | Prominent consumer CPU branding | Tick/tock |
| Westmere (2010) | 32nm | Core i3/i5/i7 | Tick (new process) |
| Sandy Bridge (2011) | 32nm | Second-generation Core i3/i5/i7 | Tock (new architecture) |
| Ivy Bridge (2012) | 22nm | Third-generation Core i3/i5/i7 | Tick |
| Haswell (2013) | 22nm | Fourth-generation Core i3/i5/i7 | Tock |
| Broadwell (2014-15) | 14nm | Fifth-generation Core i3/i5/i7, Core M | Tick/"Process" |
| Skylake (2015-16) | 14nm | Sixth-generation Core i3/i5/i7, Core m3/m5/m7 | Tock/"Architecture" |
| Kaby Lake (2016-17) | "14nm+" | Seventh-generation Core i3/i5/i7, Core m3 | "Optimization" |
| Cannonlake (2017?) | 10nm | TBA | "Process" |
There are few surprises in this lineup. Broadly, all of these processors feature the same improvements as the Kaby Lake chips we already know about, and almost all of the new chips are simply updated versions of Skylake chips that already exist. Kaby CPUs have slightly higher clock speeds than the Skylake chips they replace, and they're built on a marginally improved manufacturing process Intel calls "14nm+." The integrated GPUs support hardware-accelerated decoding and encoding of 10-bit HEVC/H.265 video streams and decoding of 8-bit VP9 streams. This saves power and CPU cycles and makes 4K playback possible on some systems that wouldn't have been able to handle it before.
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