You'd think the arrival of a new CPU is good news but it is actually very bad news.
First why a third design on 14nm when Intel technologists always say nothing offers more value than scaling offered by the next generation in PPAC? 10nm should have offered die size scaling, power and performance improvement and more die per wafer, unless of course the process yield is terrible and you have to rely on the last generation.
"With the increasing complexity and costs of pursuing Moore’s Law and a slowing PC market, Intel decided to stretch one process generation across three years and three families of chips."
"Performance gains with Kaby Lake are modest"
"The smaller than average step forward for Intel will be a boon to its distant rival AMD which announced its next-generation x86 core last week"
"By the time Intel discovered the yield issues with 10nm and that they would continue for 14nm, they could not tell their architecture teams to tweak the CPU and GPU cores again” for Kaby Lake, he said. “External circumstances pushed them in a corner and they leaned on manufacturing as their biggest lever to get them out of a sticky situation so they could have a consumer annual refresh of processors for their partners to sell,” he added.
My take TMG messed up again with 10nm late, bad times are going to get worse as Kaby will NOT stop the sales decline of PCs, more layoffs are a certainty!
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1330373