9 years ago Intel launched Tick-Tock strategy, in two years as a cycle, one year improvement process, and improve the architecture one year. With R & D, Through the millennium, Intel has been leading the competitors AMD. Unfortunately, in the process of 14nm to 10nm, Intel encountered a difficult production, Tick-Tock strategy, therefore stopped, 14nm process continued to fight three generations, and the 10nm processor after this will adopt a new "process - architecture - Optimize "(PAO) three steps to take a strategy.
For the last generation of 14nm processors before the PAO strategy, the Kaby Lake processor listed this year is full of people who have a suspicion of Intel "Power." The expectation of the king returned (although Intel has always been the king). Intel has released the mobile version of Kaby Lake in August, and many technologies are upgraded. Then, the DIY player's weight play desktop version is also expected to be released before the end of the year. Now Intel also begins to prepare 7 generations cool.
Or is it a familiar taste?
The Tick-Tock strategy of Intel has been stopped, so the Kaby Lake processor is still a 14nm process, but Intel has deepened improved and optimized, called 14nm Plus, especially the fins, transistor channels, etc. It can result in a 12% process performance increase, which is also the key to the improvement of the new product to maintain a good energy ratio. Although the POA strategy is implemented from the 10nm process, Kaby Lake is also "optimized" in PAO in some point.
Continue to use the LGA1151 package interface should be considered a good welfare. It is true that INTEL has also launched a 200-series chipset for 7-generation cool Rui, but Kabylake still supports the previous generation of 100 series motherboards. This is also a kind of thick way for players who have started 7-generation cool farms.
I don't know if you don't know if you think of a low-key number of 5-generation cool Broadwell processor, you can only compatibility with 9 series motherboards, will refuse outside the door with the 8 Series of the interface, let the old player said that you can notign. Easy, you want to have a B grid's nuclear display platform forced to go to Z97 motherboard, then everyone knows, typical good products (nuclear display) have no better sales.
This time I learned the lessons of the 5th generation, and the 7 generation must show the side of the love, let everyone know that the motherboard can use the two generations of processors, the brother is lost, the teammates (motherboard manufacturers) are only griever, Flower multi-point mind push new motherboard. 7 generations of overall performance compared to the 6th generation to pull a point, but the overall will not increase much, but it is in a hurry on the end of the 14nm life cycle. Still waiting for the listing, everyone will wait and see.
Hey, these places are different.
First, the new processor will no longer support Windows 7 and Windows 8 systems. Intel means that they will not update the Windows 7 and Windows 8 drivers for Kaby Lake, according to Microsoft strategies. It is said that AMD's ZEN will only support Windows 10 systems, which is really coincidental! So, in order to cater to the new platform, everyone is still always in the Microsoft adult, upgrade Windows 10.
In addition, Intel is 7th generation to launch a new 200 series motherboard. According to the information searched by the author, the new 200 series motherboard has increased the number of PCI-E channels compared to the 100 series, and 24 PCI-E 3.0 channels will also increase the support frequency of DDR4 memory, support Intel Optane. Mixed storage technology, 10 USB 3.0, Thunderbolt 3 lightning interface. The CPU slot of the 200 series motherboard is still LGA 1151, which is compatible with 6 generations. The strange thing is to review a lot of information, both indicate that the new motherboard does not seem to support native USB 3.1. In general, the new generation of processors belong to the "optimization" category, and there is no difference.
Soluble dynamic acceleration. At present, most of Intel support Turbo Boost Turbo acceleration, which can improve performance by short-term improvement, especially when multiple threads are not sensitive. In addition to continuing to provide dynamic frequency acceleration, SPEED SHIFT has increased the fast response to the sudden frequency. The main improvement of 7 generations is to speed up the sudden response speed, which greatly reduces the delay. Intel gives a comparison show that Core i7-7500U can speed up to 3.5GHz in about 5 milliseconds, while Core i7-6500U needs to be close to 100 milliseconds.
OPI2.0 to OPI3.0. The OPI bus inside Skylake (i.e., DMI of the previous connection processor and external chipset), although the PCI-E 3.0 X4 is theoretically, but is limited to PCI-E 2.0 X4 in order to stabilize, and the effect of SSD is large. Kaby Lake supports OPI 3.0, thereby implementing PCI-E 3.0 X4 in the actual sense, much more benefits to NVME SSD, but also supports Thunderbolt 3 devices, of course, the latter needs to cooperate with Thunderbolt master.
7 generations The biggest change is reflected in the support of the 4K encoder in the nuclear display. In addition to the 1080P H.265 encoder, 7 generations support 4K 10-bit encoders, which will receive a wide color gamut. High dynamic range HDR's ultra HDR display. The figure above can be apparent that the most direct embodiment brought by this technological progress is that when decoding 4K video, 7 generations are lower, which means that the battery life will greatly enhanced in the mobile terminal new platform. , Limited to desktop version.
Write in the last:
In the end, I said that I have to be two sentences, I originally planned to launch 7 generations this year is the established route of Intel three steps, but the desktop version is as large as the end of the year, whether it is the main push as the main time like 6th generation, But there is really not much time for 7 generation desktop version. However, it is used to the urine of the leader, the competitor AMD's Zen has not been touched to Intel, and the 7-generation cool Rui insisted that the whole 2017 is not impossible.
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