Not sure how much traction this will get to be honest.
From a marketing perspective this means a new model number, new ads, etc all designed to make last years system obsolete and to bug you into buying the latest and greatest.
However the current generation will add two more extra cores with slightly better single-threaded performance for the same price. i7's and i5's will have 6 physical cores and i3's will have 4 physical cores. On multithreaded performance there is a huge capability increase resulting from the extra cores and threads compared to the latest generation.
Motherboards are yet to be released, and people are expecting higher prices in the beginning due to a potential increased demand. We'll see what happens.
Z270 = Kaby Lake
Z370 = Coffee Lake
Disappointing that those boards won't see the new more cored processors.
There's some... interesting power consumption with the latest i9 OC'ed. https://www.eteknix.com/intel-core-i9-7980xe-extreme-edition...
Sorry Intel, but you slipped up.
The description implies you can drop-in replace a 7700K with something in this series, but apparently not?
Perhaps Intel is banking on the Z370 chipsets being the Intel equivalent of AMD's AM4 -- a chipset that sees support until the introduction of DDR5 memory. Nonetheless, the Z270 chipset being unceremoniously EOL'd is an unpleasant occurrence for many (including ODMs).
To answer your question -- it is most definitely not a drop-in replacement. While they may use the same socket, they are not interchangeable.
I mostly just find it interesting that TSMC seems to have leapfrogged Intel in fabrication processes quite solidly.
> https://ark.intel.com/compare/97129,126684
(only AVX 2.0 is).
https://ark.intel.com/products/97455/Intel-Core-i3-7100-Proc...
The latest i5 or i7 with ECC were introduced in 2014.
Now, does anybody know why i3 but not i5 or i7?
Keep in mind that for at least the last couple generations, even though Celerons, Pentiums, and i3s support ECC you must use a server chipset like the C23x or C22x to actually get ECC on those CPUs.
Hah, you wish. It's already been leaked [1] that next year's 8 core desktop CPUs will require a yet another chipset - the Z390.
[1] https://www.custompcreview.com/news/intel-chipset-roadmap-re...
Hopefully AMD's next-gen chipsets (ie: the AM4 4xx chipsets) maintain backwards compatibility with current-gen CPUs.
While AMD has been straight-forward about current-gen chipsets (ie: the AM4 3xx chipsets, A320/B350/X370) supporting all manner of AM4-compatible CPUs until AM4 is EOL'd, it is not yet clear whether next-gen AM4 motherboards will support current-gen CPUs. Probably not.