Moving to 6 cores required different power delivery, so they needed a new socket. It just happens to have the same number of pins as the old CPU. I would be wil

Moving to 6 cores required different power delivery, so they needed a new socket. It just happens to have the same number of pins as the old CPU. I would be willing to bet the number of people who want upgrade their CPUs and currently have a Kaby Lake CPU would number in the tens of thousands. Engineering around that number of people would be nuts.