14 DAY TRIAL // Intel has a number of K-class central processing units up for sale, with unlocked multipliers and, thus, overclocking support. We now know when Devil's Canyon will replace them though.
Intel has recently launched 44 new CPUs, the Haswell refresh as it were, but none of them, not the desktop and not the laptop chips, have unlocked multipliers.
That means that the company still has to release some replacements for the current processors with K suffixes.
After all, there can be no CPU generation without a bunch that can overclock like crazy. Hence the "Desktop Reinvented" strategy.
The Devil's Canyon set of LGA 1150 CPUs will cover that base. We still don't know how many of them there will be, or their actual specification, but we do now know when they will come out: June 2, 2014.
And they won't be alone. There will be some new Pentium chips coming out then as well, called Pentium Anniversary Edition. They, too, will have unlocked multipliers, as well as Quick Sync Video technology.
I'm not sure if the Pentium chips will have better thermal interface material (TMI). The Devil's Canyon definitely will though. The poor TMI of the first Haswell generation was a pretty big issue in the enthusiast community.