I Knew It. Intel Doesn't Want To Support Kaby Lake On Z370

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It is kinda a weird deal cause Kabylake was never on intel's old roadmaps. Z170 and Z270 were supposed to be Sky Lake(SKL) 14nm then Cannon Lake 10nm (CNL) compatible. Intel has had major issues with 10nm and a few years ago started to realize they were gonna have some issues right around the time they were validating their second 14nm mainstream cpu Skylake (SKL). This is when Kabylake(KBL) 14+nm was added to roadmaps, it's a basically just a Skylake Refresh with slightly updated GPU and video on a more mature 14+nm, so not much different from the Haswell to Devil's Canyon deal.. Time went on and Intel was having so many issues with 10nm that they added Coffee Lake (CFL). Coffee Lake is Kabylake Refresh with 2 cores tacked on made on a more mature and slightly tweaked 14++nm (they changed the Poly Pitch).. In AMD world this was like going from Deneb to Thuban cores on 45nm.. Anyways in my mind people did get royally screwed by Intel this time around as Intel has in the last 10 years has made a type of cpu core architecture then shrunk it and had it compatible with the same socket and chipsets (ie 32nm Sandy Bridge to 22nm Ivy Bridge on Z67 and Z77) . They had better support Cannon Lake on Z370.