For now, these two desktop CPUs will stand alone. Intel says it will be releasing the rest of the family later in the third quarter of this year, after IDF. We also don’t yet know the exact shape of the entire lineup of Skylake-based products.
So we can show you how Skylake performs, but we can’t yet tell you exactly why. Intel says it’s planning to reveal those in a couple of weeks, at its Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco. We have a Core i7-6700K chip in our grubby hands, but we don’t yet know the details of this new CPU microarchitecture. Heck, Intel announced the desktop version of its Broadwell CPUs back in June, but you still can’t buy them in North America. We’ve covered a number of product unveilings that have involved big architecture reveals and great fanfare but very little actual hardware to review.
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The Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K are the first ever Skylake parts available to the public, and they’re arriving alongside an armada of motherboards based on the new Z170 chipset.Ģ015 has been a busy year in PC hardware, but it’s been full of strange product introductions.
The first-ever version of the Skylake, its next-generation CPU architecture, is making its debut today in a pair of socketed processors for desktop PCs. Intel has decided to acknowledge the thriving PC gaming market by throwing us a big, juicy bone. PC gaming is more alive and vibrant than ever, and folks are pioneering new applications like virtual reality on the PC, as well. But a funny thing happened on the way to the death of the PC: yet another revival at the high end of the market. Desktop computing has kind of been on the backburner as a result. As you may know, Intel has been focused like mad on mobile computing for the past few years, attempting to insert itself into a growing market against established rivals like ARM.
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Skylake will likely require much more chip area to deliver this performance (it is said that the Skylake Iris Pro will feature 72 graphics "cores" while Broadwell Iris Pro has 48 "cores"), but Intel seemingly gets substantially improved performance-per-watt this way since the Skylake Iris Pro is a 45-watt chip and the Broadwell Iris Pro is a 47-watt chip.Well, this is certainly something. Solid performance-per-watt boost for Iris Pro Intel says in the slide that its highest-end Skylake Iris Pro processor, aimed at high-performance notebooks, will deliver "50% better 3D gaming" performance than the prior generation, Broadwell Iris Pro. Instead, I believe Intel is integrating these features into the platform controller hub or "PCH," that resides on the same package as the main processor die, as the slide below suggests. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that unlike with the phone and tablet chips I mentioned earlier, Intel is unlikely to integrate the sensor hub or the "tablet I/O" directly onto the main processor/graphics die. With Skylake, it seems that Intel is upping the level of integration that it's bringing to its Ultrabook and premium tablet oriented Skylake-U and Skylake-Y chips, respectively. The chips themselves though featured fundamentally the same level of integration as prior-generation Haswell processors. The first Core M chips were basically Ultrabook-oriented processors but mounted onto a slimmer processor package. Intel first introduced its Core M family of processors late last year. Skylake-U and Skylake-Y get image signal processors. If you look carefully at these slides, you'll notice three very interesting features that Intel is bringing to Skylake that the company hadn't brought to previous generation processors. You can write to him at - he doesn't bite!įollow recently published an article about a slide that has been circulating on the Web for a while that talks about Intel's ( NASDAQ:INTC) next generation processor family known as Skylake. in Computer Science as well as in Mathematics from the University of Vermont. He's an experienced and passionate technology stock analyst and investor with focus on semiconductor companies. Ashraf Eassa is a Senior Technology Specialist with The Motley Fool.