

They are also compatible with Z170 motherboards.

Kaby Lake processors are compatible with socket 1151 motherboards and use the Z270 chipset. Broadwell was the first CPU line-up to use the 14nm process and was the ‘process’ stage.Īlthough Kaby Lake uses the same 14nm manufacturing process as Skylake, it is an improved 14 nm process which features faster CPU clock speeds, clock speed changes, and higher turbo frequencies. Skylake was the ‘architecture’ change, which is why it needed a new socket. The ‘Tick-Tock’ is to be replaced with a ‘Process-Architecture-Optimization’ design process, with Kaby Lake being the ‘optimization’ stage. Kaby Lake is produced using the same 14nm process as Broadwell and Skylake, ending Intel’s ‘Tick-Tock’ design process. There is also an unlocked i3 for the first time: the Core i3 7350K. The high-end models of Kaby Lake are the Core i7 7700K and the Core i5 7600K, which were among the first processors to be released. Kaby Lake is the codename of Intel’s 7th generation line of CPUs, and the desktop versions were released on January 3, 2017.
