Intel isn’t known for its graphics processors, but the company is promising a big improvement with its 7th generation Core processors, code-named Kaby Lake. With Kaby Lake, however, Intel is adding native support for USB 3.1 Gen 2, along with a more powerful graphics architecture for improved 3D performance and 4K video processing.
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To showcase how the CPUs can handle graphically intense games, Krzanich played a game of Overwatch on a Dell XPS laptop with a Core i5 CPU.
Intel also showed off an HP 2-in-1 running 4K graphics. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has teamed up with Intel to make its premium 4K movies available on PCs powered by the upcoming 7th-Gen Core microprocessor.
CEO Brian Krzanich hopped on a laptop housing Kaby Lake and proceeded to play the popular multiplayer, which only released in May.
Lenovo and Acer are announcing Kaby Lake devices ahead of the IFA trade show in Berlin next month.
Such is the prowess of these chips, and we can’t help but wonder that if Apple were going to delay their MacBook Pro 2016 family to later in the year, why didn’t the company just end up placing Kaby Lake instead of Skylake?
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The imminent arrival of Kaby Lake will be succeeded next year with the launch of Intel’s first 10nm chips, codenamed Cannonlake, in the second half of 2017.
