Intel kills off Kaby Lake-X processors and boosts Windows 10 April 2018 Update graphics for laptops

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News AgencyIntel has revealed it's discontinuing its quad-core Kaby Lake-X processors, a mere 11 months after
and Core i5-7640X were designed for the enthusiast market, with the chips capable of some incredibly impressive overclocking performance,
HEDT platform.In a product change notification document made by Intel, the company states that PC makers and component resellers will need
to order the processors by November 30, 2018, with the final shipment of Kaby Lake-X chips pencilled in for May 31, 2019
So, if you want to get a Kaby Lake-X processor, you have around a year left to buy them.Graphic ambitionsMeanwhile, Intel has also released
a new GPU driver (24.20.100.6025) to coincide with the launch of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update.This update comes with a number of
graphics driver release.The update includes WDDM v2.4 support for the 1803/1804 RS4 Windows 10 April 2018 Update, improved HDR support, a
new task manager that displays GPU frequency and power status, Vulkan 1.1 Support, various fixes for games and a lot more.This is an
important achievement for Intel, which is heavily rumoured to be building a graphics card team for discrete gaming GPUs to rival those made
by AMD and Nvidia.By releasing the graphics driver for its integrated graphics on the same day as the new version of Windows, rather than
one or two months after the release, as Intel used to do, it shows that Intel is readying itself on the software side to be a serious player
in the discrete graphics card market.Up until now, Intel has only made integrated graphics, which are included on the same chip as its