This development shouldn't necessarily raise hopes. Although Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake have a lot of architectural similarities, particularly with their uncore components, revised electrical requirements of the new chips could be behind the lack of backwards platform-compatibility. It remains to be seen if you can use your current "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake" processors on upcoming 300-series chipset motherboards.Hopefully, Intel will clear up the situation soon.
Intel Coffee Lake-S has similar Uncore elements as Kaby Lake
Posted on Tuesday, August 08 2017 @ 13:01 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck