No, Intel Corporation Shouldn’t Cancel Kaby Lake
http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/06/13/no-intel-corporation-shouldnt-cancel-kaby-lake.aspx
_Says TMF: Newer is better for everyone
The first thing to note is that Kaby Lake is what is known as "socket compatible" with Skylake. This means that, following some validation work, Kaby Lake chips will be able to pop into the same systems that the prior-generation Skylake chips were able to.
This means that PC vendors should be able to sell largely the same systems -- if they don't want to put in the effort to design new systems -- but would be able to market them as packing seventh-generation Core (Kaby Lake) processors rather than sixth-generation Core (Skylake) processors.
From a marketing/psychological standpoint alone, a user with, say, a third- or fourth-generation Core processor is much-more likely to be enticed by a system with a seventh-generation Core processor than a sixth-generation one -- no matter the magnitude of the technical improvements generation over generation.
Further, in contrast to what Motek Moyen says, Kaby Lake is expected to bring a number of enhancements to the table, particularly in media capability, bringing support for HEVC Main10 decode/encode support, as well as hardware VP9 decode/encode support. I also expect that, as a result of fine tuning/tweaking of the underlying 14-nanometer manufacturing technology, Intel will be able to squeeze out greater frequencies -- and thus performance -- from Kaby Lake's CPU and 3D graphics engine relative to Skylake.
Kaby Lake should enable better user experiences than Skylake, so Intel would be remiss to simply cancel the product line and force PC vendors to sell the same Skylake systems for another year or so._
So, we are seeing that INTEL is actually stuck clocking... Tock, Tock, Tock, meaning Moore's Law is dead, indeed. The clock does not move, it is stuck for whole two years, so INTEL sells just cosmetic changes, in belief that PC owners will change servers, WSs and DTs every few years, as they did before.
This is called "Branding Strategy" (abbr. BS), and I leave to you all to judge how BS will play out in this IT tough market.