In yet another change to its roadmap Intel is bringing out Kaby Lake with two or four cores and and a new integrated graphics engine. There will be a dual-channel memory controller and 256MB of on-package cache to speed up the graphics workloads.

According to Softpedial Kaby Lakes will come in five processor lines: "Kaby Lake Y," "Kaby Lake U," "Kaby Lake H," and "Kaby Lake S," out of which only the S model will feature LGA 1151 support. According to Benchlife, the S model seems to stand for Skylake architecture hence the exclusive LGA 1151 support.

With those sorts of specs the new chip appears looks headed for mobile and desktop clients and will have a design power of 4.5W and up to 91W. It's is unknown whether it will have a new micro-architecture or it will support AVX-512 instructions.

With LGA1151 socket support Kaby Lake too, will play nice with Skylake systems and motherboards based on Intel's 100-series chipsets. Support for USB 3.1 will appear in the future core-logic sets, together with DDR3L and DDR4. The, U and Y SoC series will enjoy DDR3L and LPDDR3 with no upgrade for DDR4 while the S model will obviously enjoy the latter memory type.

It looks to us that Chipzilla wants to delay the 10nm "tock" advancement in favour of a universal die size. Of course it is also possible that it couldn't get the 10nm "mini-Skylake" architecture to go and delaying it is no big loss.