Desktop Kaby Lake Processor Launch Details Leaked!
Desktop Kaby Lake Processor Launch Details Leaked!
It’s All Happening At CES 2017!
We can now confirm that Intel will announce the desktop Kaby Lake processors and Intel 200 Series chipsets on January 4 at CES 2017. The news conference will be held from 4:00 to 4:45 PM at the Mandalay Bay Ballroom E, but the media NDA is set to 1 AM, Pacific Standard Time on January 5, 2017.
Hopefully, for brand new Mac Pro with brand new Apple Thunderbolt Display 24-inch.
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Well Unless Intel knew they had to leak something and are keeping the higher end Xeons back for announcement.
The Xeon E5s and E7s are still in v4 (Broadwell). Skylake is expected soon.
What's the TDP of the current iMac?
Yes, they are due and they will be introduced at CES or another venue in 2017. But they won't be Kaby Lake.
Anyone waiting for a new Mac Pro is waiting for the high-end (i.e., E5 and E7) Skylake Xeons to come out. The Kaby Lake Xeon E5s are at least a year away, probably more.
Apple could make the change from Xeon to ordinary Core. It would improve performance for most users, reduce cost, and make it possible to release more updates to the Mac Pro. ECC (if required) is already available with some Core-series products.
Given the backlash from tMBP and Tim Cook trying to calm employees about the future of the Mac (and MacWorld placing desktop Mac on the abandoned technologies list), it would make sense for Apple to make a pre-release this month without shipping.
1. It won't affect Apple as revenue from the current Mac Pro is nothing.
2. It will show the community, media, and employees that Apple is serious about being the #1 tool in creative arts and science.
3. Shipping could be in June (WWDC) or August - doesn't really matter. It is the commitment that is important.
4. Allow for a GTX1080 card inside or pre-release a TB3/eGPU dock.
Cost is important. USD has increased by 25% towards Euro (and a lot of other currencies) since 2014. It has made Mac Pro extinct in most of the world. Moving from Xeon to Core will make it possible to reduce cost and reach more users. Design and price it to sell. The old entry level for a Pro desktop from Apple was $1599 incl. keyboard and mouse. These days it starts at $3097.
Nonetheless, you are probably right to some degree. Others have mentioned this, and I've echoed them, but it's quite possible, even probable (partly for the reasons you cite), that Apple will go with the forthcoming "Basin Falls" Skylake-W (scroll down, past the Skylake-X discussion), which will use the old socket. I don't think we know for sure how these will be marketed -- I think probably just Xeon E5-1xxx v5, if the past is any indicator. But they are a departure, so they could also be called something else.
Obviously, I'm not in the desktop-Macs-are-dead camp -- I don't subscribe to the theory that the Texas facility is a failed experiment, a political stunt. Not when there is a much more straightforward explanation -- Intel.