Intel’s Skylake to support PCIe 4.0, DDR4, and SATA Express
A leaked Intel Xeon roadmap gives an idea on what Intel has in store for Skylake, the successor to their future Broadwell platform. The 14-nanometer processor isn’t set to release for a few years but it will bring some new tech with it according to the leaked roadmap.
It will be the first platform to support dual channel DDR4, even though Haswell-E will support quad channel DDR4 and is set to release next year. Skylake will also support PCIe 4.0, which is rumored to be roughly double the bandwidth of the current generation. The platform will feature direct SATA Express support, allowing for a bandwidth of about 16GB/s.
The Roadmap doesn’t provide an exact date to when to expect Skylake, but it does look promising. Hopefully by the release of Skylake, GPU and SSD manufactures will take advantage of this added bandwidth.
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