Tick, tack, tock, the first Kaby Lake units are being distributed

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Intel has already released the first batch of the seventh generation of i processors, so we will soon start to see them on the streets.

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Despite being manufactured since late 2015, they say Intel will delay them until distributors have practically liquidated the current LGA 1150 stock (Haswell and Broadwell) and there are very few Skylakes left.

It is estimated that this will not happen before 2017, despite the fact that Kaby Lake was expected for October-November 2016.

And there will be a paradoxical situation where you go to the store and you have 2014 micros that, if you look at the intel website with the FPO, their warranty has expired or there are months missing (intel offering 3 years)… unless you present the corresponding invoice... the distributors are clearly annoyed because they cannot liquidate a stock that doesn't go down and with which to buy the new micros that people want... because the price difference is minimal.

We will see when they come out and how they come out because the normal thing would be that they had more Mhz or better TDP at the same speed.

In fact, and in reality, this Tock is not the first that Intel has done... the Haswell Refresh family that came out in 2014 was precisely an optimization of Haswell that brought a standard improvement of no less than 500Mhz in the top range (4770K Vs. 4790K) and a patent improvement in the OC section, in addition to several things that had been patched to the Haswells.