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I don't see any reason to not have Coffee Lake -K SKUs. Remember all the nonsense around Haswell (and later Skylake) supposedly not having a -K series, being all BGA lines, being low-power only, etc, that just turned out to be people reading a tiny subset of specsheets and speculating wildly, or just getting plain confused by Broadwell's -C designation (for Crystalwell)? KBL-X are just some existing Kaby Lake dies plonked onto a bigger substrate to pad out the HEDT lineup (and wave the fastest-SP-performance flag which X99 was unable to), not a replacement for the next consumer socket architecture.

[QUOTE="EdZ, post: 48424, member: 30"] I don't see any reason to not have Coffee Lake -K SKUs. Remember all the nonsense around Haswell (and later Skylake) supposedly not having a -K series, being all BGA lines, being low-power only, etc, that just turned out to be people reading a tiny subset of specsheets and speculating wildly, or just getting plain confused by Broadwell's -C designation (for Crystalwell)? KBL-X are just some existing Kaby Lake dies plonked onto a bigger substrate to pad out the HEDT lineup (and wave the fastest-SP-performance flag which X99 was unable to), not a replacement for the next consumer socket architecture. [/QUOTE]

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