Digitimes quoting its mythical “Taiwan PC makers” claimed that the fact that Chipzilla is flogging Kaby Lake chips has meant that notebook vendors have lowered prices for existing Sky Lake-based models.

Prices of some gaming notebooks build on Sky Lake CPUs and Nvidia's last-generation GPUs have been cut by 10 percent. Volume shipments of desktop-use Kaby Lake CPUs will come at the end of 2016 and new motherboards based on Z270 and H270 chips will go on sale by year-end, indicated the sources.

Intel has adjusted the price structure of its 100-series chipsets, encouraging motherboard makers to purchase more H110 chips.

Intel's roadmap shows that it will roll out its 10nm notebook-use Cannon Lake and 14nm desktop-use Coffee Lake CPUs in the second half of 2017 and to bring out Ice Lake CPUs in 2018.