Skylake Delayed

[SteelCrysis]

http://www.maximumpc.com/intel_rumored_d...ugust_2015

Rumor has it that Intel is delaying the release of its 14nm Skylake desktop CPUs until around the end of August instead of late in the second quarter as originally scheduled. Keeping in mind that none of this is official -- Intel hasn't made any Skylake announcements that have to do with release dates -- a leaked slide earlier this month showed both Skylake-U (mobile) and Skylake-S (desktop) parts at the tail end of Q2.

Both represent Intel's 6th Generation Core processor line and are considered "tocks" in Intel's alternating "tick-tock" release cycle (a tick is typically a die shrink of an existing architecture, while a tock is a brand new architecture). The desktop variant will require a new socket (1151) and will coincide with Intel's 100 Series chipset, which among other things will introduce a significant PCIe upgrade with more lanes.

According to Digitimes and whatever sources it has within the motherboard industry, Intel has supposedly put to the word out to mobo makers about the delay. If true, it's expected to have a sort of domino effect by screwing with the production and shipment plans for a Haswell refresh and Broadwell-U for the second quarter of 2015. It could also delay the development of Broadwell chips with a 65W TDP.

This will also impact PC sales in general. Vendors were hoping to show off Skylake systems at Computex 2015 in June, and this obviously puts a wrinkle into those plans.

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http://vr-zone.com/articles/intel-skylak...87129.html

According to a new report on our sister site VR-Zone Chinese, Intel is likely to debut its upcoming Skylake-S desktop CPU lineup based on the new Skylake architecture at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2015 scheduled to be held on 15th August.

The SKUs that are likely to be announced in August include the K series unlocked chips and the normal locked chips. The most powerful of the K series unlocked SKU is expected to have a TDP of 95W while the other chips will have a TDP of 65W and 35W. It is believed that all of these new SKUs will come with the new Intel GT2 graphics that features 24 execution units. Both quad-core and dual-core parts are expected to be part of the new Skylake-S lineup.

Intel’s Skylake CPU lineup is expected to be the most impressive announcement from the company this year as it brings a major leap in performance and will be built on a 14nm manufacturing process. The Skylake family of processors will boast of a higher IPC and improved graphics performance along with higher power efficiency.

Along with the Skylake-S line, Intel is also expected to debut the Skylake-U lineup of processors targeted at the notebook segment with 28W and 15W TDP SKUs.

[SickBeast]

Well, Broadwell came out today and it's about 7% faster than Haswell and it uses less power.

[SteelCrysis]

Well, Broadwell came out today and it's about 7% faster than Haswell and it uses less power.

LOLWUT. Why haven't I heard about it?!
Edit: Just read the topic on BTR forum. A good show by Intel.

[ocre]

so broadwell just launched and intel is gonna launch skylake just 6 months later?

W-H-A-T-?

that is completely crazy man,

craziest thing i ever seen.

What is going on? Is broadwell a top to bottom series? will they finally bring 6 or 8 core CPUs to the mainstream?

Is this 7% performance increase a clock per clock advantage or is it a result of the smaller node allowing a higher clock speed?
How much has power consumption improved? Its kind of scary/crazy to see that not even intel is able to gain much in performance per watt with their advance fabs and word-class nodes. They have been barely budging forward in real world power consumption and since then has invented new power rating called SDP which they tried to be slick about.

But considering that massive improvements from 45nm to 32nm, we really didnt see too much going from 32 to 22nm. And now 14nm, which should be a massive improvement and it is not. Especially in the high performance sector. It is gonna take a major change in the core architecture. This is where intel has got the small gains it did get. Going from sandy to ivy to haswell, all the improvements came from the architecture and very little from the node. Very very little.

But this means that GPUs are gonna be in the exact same boat. We already see that 20nm is not even worth it and it is being skipped. But, i am starting to think that this is a bigger deal than just this one node. Moving forward is gonna be very very tricky for GPUs. I think the LP is doing okay and the smaller nodes do allow for more transistors in the same area. But we are running towards a narrowing tunnel. Perhaps GPUs will have to tone it down in the future. It is sad to think, but GPUs are facing the same fate as CPUs and will really start creeping forward. Until there is some break through.....somewhere