
Kaby Lake is built for the "immersive Internet" and what they are talking up today includes:
- Up to 12% faster productivity performance over Skylake.
- Up to 19% faster web performance over Skylake.
- Improved 4K UHD support with a new media engine on Kaby Lake. Kaby Lake will support hardware-accelerated Vp9 decoding along with 4K HEVC 10-bit encode/decode with this new media engine.
- As already known, Kaby Lake graphics are built off the Gen9 Skylake architecture. But with Kaby Lake we should be seeing higher clock frequencies for the graphics.
- Native Thunderbolt 3 support as "one port that does it all."
- 2-in-1s and laptops powered by Kaby Lake CPUs will be available starting in September. These Kaby Lake designs for devices coming out this year are from 4.5 to 15 Watt.
- The desktop and enterprise Kaby Lake launch isn't happening until early 2017.
Some more early details about Kaby Lake via this Intel.com page.
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