Intel Confirms Skylake Is On Schedule

[ShaunB-91]

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has confirmed that the upcoming Skylake is on time for making it to us by the second half of this year.

This is great news considering Intel has been having some trouble getting the chips down to the 14nm process. With the 14nm issues ironed out, Intel have since released two product ranges on Broadwell, the Broadwell-U and Core M.

Intel Skylake will come in both desktop and mobile forms in the second half of 2015 although there are no specifics at this time on which models will be available.

Intel's CEO stressed the similarities of Broadwell and Skylake at its conference call, further reinforcing the fact we are likely to see both architectures co-exist in the marketplace. "They [Broadwell and Skylake] are on the same technology, the same piece of silicon, it’s the same factory. All we do is change the piece of glass in the scanner to get a different product."

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Intel's next step following the release of 14nm chips will be to shrink them down further to 10nm. These cores are codenamed 'Cannonlake' In response to an investor question about the 10nm process node, Intel's CEO revealed the company is making further announcements at an investor meeting in November 2015.

 

[Dicehunter]

Nice find dude, I'll be getting a Broadwell 5770K/5970K or what ever their top end part is called to plop into my Z97 as soon as they land

Gonna skip Skylake seeing as Intel put it, Same tech, Same size etc....

 

[ShaunB-91]

Nice find dude, I'll be getting a Broadwell 5770K/5970K or what ever their top end part is called to plop into my Z97 as soon as they land

Gonna skip Skylake seeing as Intel put it, Same tech, Same size etc....

I don't know what I'm doing yet. Last year I wanted Skylake, now I want DDR4 now, then I'm thinking just upgrade your GPU and get 4K. Decisions, decisions!

 

[Dicehunter]

I don't know what I'm doing yet. Last year I wanted Skylake, now I want DDR4 now, then I'm thinking just upgrade your GPU and get 4K. Decisions, decisions!

Broadwell will be the last mainstream platform I own, Anything after it will be the top end extreme CPU/mobo

 

[Tredien]

Didn't they say somewhere that there would be no Skylake K series?

Might upgrade my 2600k to a Broadwell when they come out, depends on the temps/clocks.

Any hints on when they'll start coming out?

 

[ShaunB-91]

Any hints on when they'll start coming out?

Only info atm is second half of the year.

 

[NeverBackDown]

What the hell?

"They [Broadwell and Skylake] are on the same technology, the same piece of silicon, it’s the same factory. All we do is change the piece of glass in the scanner to get a different product."

Then why the hell release them if they are exactly the same? Seems more like it was a waste of time rather than an advancement.

 

[WillSK]

I think i'm going to wait for the first DDR4 capable processors. Is this broadwell or skylake?

What the hell?



Then why the hell release them if they are exactly the same? Seems more like it was a waste of time rather an advancement.

Knowing Intel Skylake is prob gonna end up being Broadwell with "improved TIM"

 

[ShaunB-91]

Its probably just going to be lower power usage and cooler..

 

[Dawelio]

What the hell?



Then why the hell release them if they are exactly the same? Seems more like it was a waste of time rather than an advancement.

I gotta agree on this... seems a bit odd and waiste to make 2 products that are pretty much identical, only changing the glass in the scanner to get the difference (not sure how much the glass in the scanner makes them different from eachother though).

 

[barnsley]

Then why the hell release them if they are exactly the same? Seems more like it was a waste of time rather than an advancement.

One for Ultrabooks, one for everyone else. Thats how it'll work IMO.

 

[Dicehunter]

One for Ultrabooks, one for everyone else. Thats how it'll work IMO.

This makes the most sense TBH, Widewell for desktops and Skywater for ultrabooks, Laptops etc...

 

[NeverBackDown]

One for Ultrabooks, one for everyone else. Thats how it'll work IMO.

Ok but still a waste of money on their end.. releasing them so close to eachother? They mine as well have cancelled Broadwell and just kept with Skylake. What's the point in having the newest for ultrabooks and the older for everyone else? Mine as well use the newest for both. It's intel. They will still cost them the same being as stingy as they are. Which brings me back to the point.. why release Broadwell at all? I would have rathered them to cancel it and help build on future products like 10nm chips to hurry up that production/yield.

 

[Dawelio]

Ok but still a waste of money on their end.. releasing them so close to eachother? They mine as well have cancelled Broadwell and just kept with Skylake. What's the point in having the newest for ultrabooks and the older for everyone else? Mine as well use the newest for both. It's intel. They will still cost them the same being as stingy as they are. Which brings me back to the point.. why release Broadwell at all? I would have rathered them to cancel it and help build on future products like 10nm chips to hurry up that production/yield.

This will be quite immature, but who cares really? (don't mean to go off harsch here, just trying to put this into a context here folks)... if they wanna release it, then let them. It's not like they don't seem to have the money for it lol, otherwise they wouldn't... release it? .....

 

[NeverBackDown]

This will be quite immature, but who cares really? (don't mean to go off harsch here, just trying to put this into a context here folks)... if they wanna release it, then let them. It's not like they don't seem to have the money for it lol, otherwise they wouldn't... release it? .....

They can do what they want. I'm merely asking why they would sabotage their own business profits by releasing them so close to eachother when they could have cancelled one and made all future chips little earlier with more engineers to pass around.. It's more a question than anything. I'm not blaming them or anything. My opinion on how they run the business means nothing to them lol

 

[Dawelio]

They can do what they want. I'm merely asking why they would sabotage their own business profits by releasing them so close to eachother when they could have cancelled one and made all future chips little earlier with more engineers to pass around.. It's more a question than anything. I'm not blaming them or anything. My opinion on how they run the business means nothing to them lol

Exactly... and yet my point, who cares really lol?... it's all an hypothesis here.

If they wanna sabotage their own business, who are we to speak lol... but yes, it's an very interesting question/theory you have there though and the same I was and still am thinking off... wonder who pulled the trigger on that call?

 

[The_Governour]

I would only upgrade my 4670k when I see a sufficient enough change and I doubt that i will be skylake.